--- title: London vs Paris: which city's businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/compare/london/paris?format=md --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) [Compare](https://directindex.org/compare) · restaurants and fast food · as of 2026-10-14 # London or Paris: whose businesses can AI agents use? London: 3,072 business websites scanned, 60% take a booking or an order on their own site, 33% turn an AI crawler away, 40% score A or B. Paris: 2,933 business websites scanned, 52% take a booking or an order on their own site, 18% turn an AI crawler away, 41% score A or B. Numbers as of 2026-10-14. | | London | Paris | | --- | --- | --- | | Business websites scanned | 3,072 of 3,663 with a site | 2,933 of 3,419 with a site | | Take a booking or an order on their own site | **60%** of 2,543 reachable | 52% of 2,703 reachable | | Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 33% of 2,543 reachable | **18%** of 2,703 reachable | | Score A or B | 40% 1,224 sites | **41%** 1,198 sites | [London](https://directindex.org/city/london) · [United Kingdom](https://directindex.org/country/gb) ********** A 439 · B 785 · C 567 · D 361 · F 920 [Paris](https://directindex.org/city/paris) · [France](https://directindex.org/country/fr) ********** A 431 · B 767 · C 570 · D 558 · F 607 Shares are over the reachable sites of each index, latest scan of each; A or B over all scanned. 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Findings ## What the index found in each city Menu or price list | | London | Paris | | --- | --- | --- | | HTML page | 57% 1,457 | 59% 1,592 | | none | 29% 739 | 25% 685 | | PDF | 9% 235 | 8% 226 | | elsewhere | 3% 80 | 3% 94 | | on the page | 1% 24 | 3% 93 | | image | 0% 8 | 0% 13 | Direct booking or ordering | | London | Paris | | --- | --- | --- | | own site | 50% 1,273 | 35% 941 | | none | 30% 754 | 36% 972 | | vendor on own site | 10% 254 | 17% 458 | | third party | 5% 132 | 8% 203 | | marketplace | 5% 130 | 5% 129 | Site builder | | London | Paris | | --- | --- | --- | | Unknown | 41% 1,050 | 54% 1,455 | | WordPress | 38% 960 | 32% 854 | | Squarespace | 10% 245 | 4% 102 | | Wix | 5% 129 | 6% 149 | | Webflow | 2% 43 | 3% 88 | | Shopify | 3% 66 | 1% 31 | | GoDaddy Website Builder | 1% 22 | 0% 8 | Booking and ordering vendors | | London | Paris | | --- | --- | --- | | [Zenchef](https://directindex.org/vendors/zenchef) | 0 | 374 | | [SevenRooms](https://directindex.org/vendors/sevenrooms) | 155 | 36 | | [Deliveroo](https://directindex.org/vendors/deliveroo) | 96 | 64 | | [OpenTable](https://directindex.org/vendors/opentable) | 131 | 0 | | [Uber Eats](https://directindex.org/vendors/ubereats) | 31 | 71 | | [TheFork](https://directindex.org/vendors/thefork) | 0 | 73 | | [Dojo](https://directindex.org/vendors/dojo) | 35 | 0 | | [Just Eat](https://directindex.org/vendors/justeat) | 22 | 3 | | [Slerp](https://directindex.org/vendors/slerp) | 22 | 0 | | [Toast](https://directindex.org/vendors/toast) | 20 | 0 | Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (2,543 in London, 2,703 in Paris). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass. Month by month ## London / Paris, month by month Each cell reads London / Paris. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: [London](https://directindex.org/city/london), [Paris](https://directindex.org/city/paris). | Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | October 2026 so far | 3,661 / 3,419 | 60% / 52% | 33% / 18% | 1,224 / 1,198 | More ## Keep comparing [United Kingdom: every city](https://directindex.org/country/gb) · [France: every city](https://directindex.org/country/fr) · [Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings?kind=restaurants) · [Pick two other cities](https://directindex.org/compare) · [London on a map](https://directindex.org/city/london/map) · [Paris on a map](https://directindex.org/city/paris/map) #### The Direct Index [Why direct](https://directindex.org/why)[What agent-direct means](https://directindex.org/agent-direct)[About and principles](https://directindex.org/about)[Methodology](https://directindex.org/methodology)[Privacy](https://directindex.org/privacy)[Terms](https://directindex.org/terms) #### Use it [Free scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[City indexes](https://directindex.org/cities)[Search the index](https://directindex.org/search)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[What assistants recommend](https://directindex.org/assistants)[Ask the index](https://directindex.org/ask) #### Vendors and help [Booking and ordering vendors](https://directindex.org/vendors)[Do their terms allow agents?](https://directindex.org/vendors/terms)[Vendor verification](https://directindex.org/vendors/verification)[Website builders](https://directindex.org/builders)[Who can fix this](https://directindex.org/providers)[For agencies](https://directindex.org/agency) #### For agents [llms.txt](https://directindex.org/llms.txt)[llms-full.txt](https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt)[OpenAPI](https://directindex.org/openapi.json)[MCP server](https://directindex.org/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)[A2A agent](https://directindex.org/.well-known/agent-card.json)[Direct feeds](https://directindex.org/direct.json) #### Data [Open data, CSV and JSON](https://directindex.org/data)[The quarterly edition](https://directindex.org/editions)[City data, JSON and Markdown](https://directindex.org/cities)[Sitemap](https://directindex.org/sitemap.xml) Business listings from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. 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