--- title: Los Angeles vs San Francisco: which city's businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/compare/los-angeles/san-francisco?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 # Los Angeles or San Francisco: whose businesses can AI agents use? Los Angeles: 1,511 business websites scanned, 64% take a booking or an order on their own site, 41% turn an AI crawler away, 37% score A or B. San Francisco: 1,149 business websites scanned, 67% take a booking or an order on their own site, 40% turn an AI crawler away, 40% score A or B. Numbers as of 2026-10-14. | | Los Angeles | San Francisco | | --- | --- | --- | | Business websites scanned | 1,511 of 1,694 with a site | 1,149 of 1,269 with a site | | Take a booking or an order on their own site | 64% of 1,148 reachable | **67%** of 856 reachable | | Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 41% of 1,148 reachable | **40%** of 856 reachable | | Score A or B | 37% 561 sites | **40%** 463 sites | [Los Angeles](https://directindex.org/city/los-angeles) · [United States](https://directindex.org/country/us) ********** A 205 · B 356 · C 272 · D 149 · F 529 [San Francisco](https://directindex.org/city/san-francisco) · [United States](https://directindex.org/country/us) ********** A 188 · B 275 · C 175 · D 94 · F 417 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 | | Los Angeles | San Francisco | | --- | --- | --- | | HTML page | 64% 729 | 64% 544 | | none | 31% 353 | 28% 239 | | elsewhere | 3% 35 | 5% 40 | | PDF | 3% 30 | 3% 28 | | image | 0% 0 | 1% 5 | | on the page | 0% 1 | 0% 0 | Direct booking or ordering | | Los Angeles | San Francisco | | --- | --- | --- | | own site | 43% 491 | 41% 355 | | none | 25% 292 | 24% 206 | | vendor on own site | 21% 238 | 25% 216 | | third party | 7% 81 | 7% 56 | | marketplace | 4% 46 | 3% 23 | Site builder | | Los Angeles | San Francisco | | --- | --- | --- | | Unknown | 38% 438 | 38% 324 | | WordPress | 27% 308 | 21% 177 | | Squarespace | 15% 170 | 22% 185 | | BentoBox | 5% 56 | 7% 60 | | Wix | 5% 53 | 5% 47 | | Weebly | 3% 33 | 3% 28 | | Webflow | 3% 39 | 2% 17 | Booking and ordering vendors | | Los Angeles | San Francisco | | --- | --- | --- | | [Toast](https://directindex.org/vendors/toast) | 130 | 135 | | [OpenTable](https://directindex.org/vendors/opentable) | 55 | 66 | | [DoorDash Storefront](https://directindex.org/vendors/doordash_storefront) | 47 | 51 | | [Resy](https://directindex.org/vendors/resy) | 32 | 22 | | [Square](https://directindex.org/vendors/square) | 17 | 37 | | [ChowNow](https://directindex.org/vendors/chownow) | 36 | 13 | | [BentoBox](https://directindex.org/vendors/bentobox) | 12 | 15 | | [DoorDash](https://directindex.org/vendors/doordash) | 14 | 8 | Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (1,148 in Los Angeles, 856 in San Francisco). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass. Month by month ## Los Angeles / San Francisco, month by month Each cell reads Los Angeles / San Francisco. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: [Los Angeles](https://directindex.org/city/los-angeles), [San Francisco](https://directindex.org/city/san-francisco). | Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | October 2026 so far | 1,692 / 1,268 | 64% / 67% | 41% / 40% | 561 / 463 | More ## Keep comparing [United States: every city](https://directindex.org/country/us) · [Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings?kind=restaurants) · [Pick two other cities](https://directindex.org/compare) · [Los Angeles on a map](https://directindex.org/city/los-angeles/map) · [San Francisco on a map](https://directindex.org/city/san-francisco/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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