# AP2 & ACP: the other standards

Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) and OpenAI/Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) do the same job from the card side: verifiable mandates that prove an agent had permission to buy. Expect to support one card-based and one crypto-based rail.

Canonical: https://robauto.ai/learn/agentic-commerce-101/8

_Agentic Commerce 101: How Agents Buy and Sell — lesson 8 of 20 (DEFINITION)_

Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) and OpenAI/Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) do the same job from the card side: verifiable mandates that prove an agent had permission to buy. Expect to support one card-based and one crypto-based rail.

Source: [Google — Agent Payments Protocol](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning?utm_source=robauto)

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