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title: Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main) vs Munich (München): which city's businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/compare/frankfurt/munich?format=md
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# Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main) or Munich (München): whose businesses can AI agents use?

Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main): 1,001 business websites scanned, 36% take a booking or an order on their own site, 35% turn an AI crawler away, 22% score A or B. Munich (München): 1,766 business websites scanned, 41% take a booking or an order on their own site, 34% turn an AI crawler away, 24% score A or B. Numbers as of 2026-10-14.

| | Frankfurt | Munich |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Business websites scanned | 1,001 of 1,107 with a site | 1,766 of 1,872 with a site |
| Take a booking or an order on their own site | 36% of 865 reachable | **41%** of 1,536 reachable |
| Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 35% of 865 reachable | **34%** of 1,536 reachable |
| Score A or B | 22% 222 sites | **24%** 430 sites |

[Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main)](https://directindex.org/city/frankfurt) · [Germany](https://directindex.org/country/de)
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A 51 · B 171 · C 215 · D 251 · F 313

[Munich (München)](https://directindex.org/city/munich) · [Germany](https://directindex.org/country/de)
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A 107 · B 323 · C 376 · D 424 · F 536

Shares are over the reachable sites of each index, latest scan of each; A or B over all scanned. [Methodology](https://directindex.org/methodology) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/compare/frankfurt/munich?format=md) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/api/compare/frankfurt/munich) · [All cities ranked](https://directindex.org/rankings?kind=restaurants).

 Findings

## What the index found in each city

Menu or price list

| | Frankfurt | Munich |
| --- | --- | --- |
| HTML page | 46% 395 | 45% 693 |
| none | 35% 299 | 34% 518 |
| PDF | 13% 109 | 13% 205 |
| on the page | 5% 47 | 6% 92 |
| elsewhere | 2% 14 | 1% 18 |
| image | 0% 1 | 1% 10 |

Direct booking or ordering

| | Frankfurt | Munich |
| --- | --- | --- |
| none | 53% 459 | 46% 702 |
| own site | 31% 272 | 34% 515 |
| marketplace | 7% 60 | 9% 143 |
| vendor on own site | 5% 41 | 7% 108 |
| third party | 4% 33 | 4% 68 |

Site builder

| | Frankfurt | Munich |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unknown | 48% 416 | 45% 696 |
| WordPress | 43% 372 | 44% 677 |
| Wix | 3% 30 | 3% 45 |
| Webflow | 2% 14 | 3% 53 |
| Squarespace | 2% 16 | 2% 34 |
| Jimdo | 1% 12 | 2% 24 |
| Shopify | 0% 3 | 0% 3 |

Booking and ordering vendors

| | Frankfurt | Munich |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Just Eat](https://directindex.org/vendors/justeat) | 37 | 103 |
| [OpenTable](https://directindex.org/vendors/opentable) | 38 | 77 |
| [Wolt](https://directindex.org/vendors/wolt) | 12 | 25 |
| [aleno](https://directindex.org/vendors/aleno) | 0 | 21 |
| [Uber Eats](https://directindex.org/vendors/ubereats) | 6 | 12 |
| [TheFork](https://directindex.org/vendors/thefork) | 0 | 15 |
| [resmio](https://directindex.org/vendors/resmio) | 3 | 10 |
| [Zenchef](https://directindex.org/vendors/zenchef) | 3 | 8 |
| [gastronovi](https://directindex.org/vendors/gastronovi) | 6 | 0 |
| [SevenRooms](https://directindex.org/vendors/sevenrooms) | 5 | 0 |

Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (865 in Frankfurt, 1,536 in Munich). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass.

 Month by month

## Frankfurt / Munich, month by month

Each cell reads Frankfurt / Munich. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: [Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main)](https://directindex.org/city/frankfurt), [Munich (München)](https://directindex.org/city/munich).

| Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| October 2026 so far | 1,107 / 1,872 | 36% / 41% | 35% / 34% | 222 / 430 |

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