---
title: Montreal vs Toronto: which city's businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/compare/montreal/toronto?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)[Why](https://directindex.org/why)[Method](https://directindex.org/methodology)[About](https://directindex.org/about)

 [Compare](https://directindex.org/compare) · restaurants and fast food · as of 2026-10-14

# Montreal or Toronto: whose businesses can AI agents use?

Montreal: 823 business websites scanned, 39% take a booking or an order on their own site, 39% turn an AI crawler away, 27% score A or B. Toronto: 1,382 business websites scanned, 48% take a booking or an order on their own site, 36% turn an AI crawler away, 34% score A or B. Numbers as of 2026-10-14.

| | Montreal | Toronto |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Business websites scanned | 823 of 940 with a site | 1,382 of 1,550 with a site |
| Take a booking or an order on their own site | 39% of 644 reachable | **48%** of 1,069 reachable |
| Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 39% of 644 reachable | **36%** of 1,069 reachable |
| Score A or B | 27% 219 sites | **34%** 476 sites |

[Montreal](https://directindex.org/city/montreal) · [Canada](https://directindex.org/country/ca)
**********

A 43 · B 176 · C 160 · D 141 · F 303

[Toronto](https://directindex.org/city/toronto) · [Canada](https://directindex.org/country/ca)
**********

A 144 · B 332 · C 241 · D 197 · F 468

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/montreal/toronto?format=md) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/api/compare/montreal/toronto) · [All cities ranked](https://directindex.org/rankings?kind=restaurants).

 Findings

## What the index found in each city

Menu or price list

| | Montreal | Toronto |
| --- | --- | --- |
| HTML page | 57% 366 | 64% 683 |
| none | 29% 188 | 30% 316 |
| PDF | 7% 43 | 3% 35 |
| elsewhere | 7% 44 | 3% 29 |
| image | 0% 3 | 0% 5 |
| on the page | 0% 0 | 0% 1 |

Direct booking or ordering

| | Montreal | Toronto |
| --- | --- | --- |
| own site | 29% 185 | 40% 430 |
| none | 44% 283 | 30% 325 |
| third party | 9% 60 | 15% 156 |
| vendor on own site | 11% 69 | 8% 88 |
| marketplace | 7% 47 | 7% 70 |

Site builder

| | Montreal | Toronto |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unknown | 39% 252 | 39% 417 |
| WordPress | 39% 253 | 38% 403 |
| Squarespace | 11% 71 | 12% 125 |
| Wix | 3% 19 | 4% 45 |
| Shopify | 4% 23 | 3% 27 |
| Webflow | 3% 19 | 2% 20 |
| Weebly | 1% 4 | 2% 20 |

Booking and ordering vendors

| | Montreal | Toronto |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [OpenTable](https://directindex.org/vendors/opentable) | 31 | 55 |
| [Uber Eats](https://directindex.org/vendors/ubereats) | 32 | 38 |
| [DoorDash Storefront](https://directindex.org/vendors/doordash_storefront) | 16 | 27 |
| [Libro](https://directindex.org/vendors/libro) | 38 | 0 |
| [Resy](https://directindex.org/vendors/resy) | 9 | 15 |
| [Toast](https://directindex.org/vendors/toast) | 0 | 24 |
| [DoorDash](https://directindex.org/vendors/doordash) | 7 | 8 |
| [GloriaFood](https://directindex.org/vendors/gloriafood) | 0 | 7 |
| [Square](https://directindex.org/vendors/square) | 0 | 7 |
| [Clover](https://directindex.org/vendors/clover) | 5 | 0 |

Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (644 in Montreal, 1,069 in Toronto). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass.

 Month by month

## Montreal / Toronto, month by month

Each cell reads Montreal / Toronto. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: [Montreal](https://directindex.org/city/montreal), [Toronto](https://directindex.org/city/toronto).

| Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| October 2026 so far | 940 / 1,550 | 39% / 48% | 39% / 36% | 219 / 476 |

 More

## Keep comparing

[Canada: every city](https://directindex.org/country/ca) · [Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings?kind=restaurants) · [Pick two other cities](https://directindex.org/compare) · [Montreal on a map](https://directindex.org/city/montreal/map) · [Toronto on a map](https://directindex.org/city/toronto/map)

#### The Direct Index

[Why direct](https://directindex.org/why)[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)[Compare two cities](https://directindex.org/compare)[Countries](https://directindex.org/countries)[What assistants recommend](https://directindex.org/assistants)[What changed](https://directindex.org/changes)[Ask the index](https://directindex.org/ask)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[Common fixes](https://directindex.org/fix)[What agent-direct means](https://directindex.org/agent-direct)

#### 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. Scores under the same licence.

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","founder":{"@type":"Person","name":"Antonio Curado"},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]}
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Dataset","name":"Montreal vs Toronto: which city's businesses can AI agents use?","url":"https://directindex.org/compare/montreal/toronto","description":"Montreal: 823 business websites scanned, 39% take a booking or an order on their own site, 39% turn an AI crawler away, 27% score A or B. Toronto: 1,382 business websites scanned, 48% take a booking or an order on their own site, 36% turn an AI crawler away, 34% score A or B. Numbers as of 2026-10-14.","license":"https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/","creator":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"isPartOf":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#site"},"distribution":[{"@type":"DataDownload","encodingFormat":"application/json","contentUrl":"https://directindex.org/api/compare/montreal/toronto"},{"@type":"DataDownload","encodingFormat":"text/markdown","contentUrl":"https://directindex.org/compare/montreal/toronto?format=md"}]}
```