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 "url": "https://agenticweb.wiki/compare/vi-vs-agentic-commerce-protocol/",
 "title": "Verifiable Intent vs Agentic Commerce Protocol",
 "description": "Verifiable Intent vs Agentic Commerce Protocol: The map lists them as complementary: sites and agents commonly implement both. Side-by-side step…",
 "markdown_url": "https://agenticweb.wiki/compare/vi-vs-agentic-commerce-protocol/index.md",
 "markdown": "# Verifiable Intent (VI) vs Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP)\n\nThe map lists them as complementary: sites and agents commonly implement both. They answer different questions: Verifiable Intent is a step 9 (Account) standard, Agentic Commerce Protocol step 7 (Pay), so they are not substitutes.\n\n[9 Account](/category/account/) [Verifiable Intent](/protocols/vi/) · [7 Pay](/category/pay/) [Agentic Commerce Protocol](/protocols/agentic-commerce-protocol/)\n\n|  | [Verifiable Intent](/protocols/vi/) VI | [Agentic Commerce Protocol](/protocols/agentic-commerce-protocol/) ACP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Lifecycle step | 9 Account: Prove what happened; be judged | 7 Pay: Settle the bill |\n| Answers | After an agent completes a purchase on a user's behalf, can the merchant, issuer and consumer all point to the same cryptographic record of what the user actually authorized? | How do a buyer's agent and a merchant complete a deterministic, programmatic checkout without the agent becoming the merchant of record? |\n| Governed by | Mastercard; contributed to the FIDO Alliance Payments TWG (2026-04-28); built on FIDO Alliance, EMVCo, IETF and W3C primitives | Technical Steering Committee (up to 7 org seats); OpenAI, Stripe, and Meta are lead maintainers, with OpenAI and Stripe as Founding Maintainers holding last-resort veto over mission, neutrality, security, and fork-integrity decisions |\n| Status (issuer's words) | Draft (v0.1); open-sourced specification and reference implementation | Beta open standard, interaction model for connecting buyers, agents, and businesses |\n| Version | 0.1-draft (2026-02-18) | 2026-04-17 (date-versioned spec; unreleased/ tracks current development) (2026-04-17) |\n| Form / transport | document format | endpoint |\n| Found at | none | Bilateral capability negotiation (per RFC: capability_negotiation) between agent platform and merchant; no fixed well-known path published |\n| Implementation | prototype | multi-implementation — OpenAI and Stripe (project README) |\n| Evidence | 4 verified | 3 verified, 2 reported |\n| Primary use case | Let agents buy on behalf of a person | Let agents buy on behalf of a person |\n| Last verified | 2026-10-23 (current) | 2026-10-23 (current) |\n| Specification | [https://verifiableintent.dev/spec/](https://verifiableintent.dev/spec/) | [https://github.com/agentic-commerce-protocol/agentic-commerce-protocol](https://github.com/agentic-commerce-protocol/agentic-commerce-protocol) |\n\n## When to use which\n\n- Choose Verifiable Intent when your question is “After an agent completes a purchase on a user's behalf, can the merchant, issuer and consumer all point to the same cryptographic record of what the user actually authorized?” and you accept its maturity: status \"Draft (v0.1); open-sourced specification and reference implementation\", implementation prototype.\n- Choose Agentic Commerce Protocol when your question is “How do a buyer's agent and a merchant complete a deterministic, programmatic checkout without the agent becoming the merchant of record?” and you accept its maturity: status \"Beta open standard, interaction model for connecting buyers, agents, and businesses\", implementation multi-implementation (OpenAI and Stripe (project README)).\n\nGuidance is derived from the two records (question, status, implementation, prerequisites, pairings), not from opinion. Each record's page carries its numbered references.\n\n## Read the full articles\n\n- [Verifiable Intent](/protocols/vi/): After an agent completes a purchase on a user's behalf, can the merchant, issuer and consumer all point to the same cryptographic record of what the user actually authorized?\n- [Agentic Commerce Protocol](/protocols/agentic-commerce-protocol/): How do a buyer's agent and a merchant complete a deterministic, programmatic checkout without the agent becoming the merchant of record?\n\nAsk the MCP server to compare any two: the compare-protocols prompt, or get on both ids. [Connect](/connect/).\n\n[vi.json](/data/protocols/vi.json) · [agentic-commerce-protocol.json](/data/protocols/agentic-commerce-protocol.json) · [Markdown](/compare/vi-vs-agentic-commerce-protocol/index.md)\n"
}