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title: Montreal vs Vancouver: which city's businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/compare/montreal/vancouver?format=md
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# Montreal or Vancouver: 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. Vancouver: 981 business websites scanned, 54% take a booking or an order on their own site, 31% turn an AI crawler away, 38% score A or B. Numbers as of 2026-10-14.

| | Montreal | Vancouver |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Business websites scanned | 823 of 940 with a site | 981 of 1,027 with a site |
| Take a booking or an order on their own site | 39% of 644 reachable | **54%** of 812 reachable |
| Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 39% of 644 reachable | **31%** of 812 reachable |
| Score A or B | 27% 219 sites | **38%** 375 sites |

[Montreal](https://directindex.org/city/montreal) · [Canada](https://directindex.org/country/ca)
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A 43 · B 176 · C 160 · D 141 · F 303

[Vancouver](https://directindex.org/city/vancouver) · [Canada](https://directindex.org/country/ca)
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A 100 · B 275 · C 173 · D 120 · F 313

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

 Findings

## What the index found in each city

Menu or price list

| | Montreal | Vancouver |
| --- | --- | --- |
| HTML page | 57% 366 | 66% 534 |
| none | 29% 188 | 27% 216 |
| PDF | 7% 43 | 4% 29 |
| elsewhere | 7% 44 | 3% 26 |
| image | 0% 3 | 1% 7 |

Direct booking or ordering

| | Montreal | Vancouver |
| --- | --- | --- |
| none | 44% 283 | 31% 255 |
| own site | 29% 185 | 43% 346 |
| vendor on own site | 11% 69 | 12% 95 |
| third party | 9% 60 | 8% 62 |
| marketplace | 7% 47 | 7% 54 |

Site builder

| | Montreal | Vancouver |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unknown | 39% 252 | 35% 288 |
| WordPress | 39% 253 | 33% 267 |
| Squarespace | 11% 71 | 19% 158 |
| Wix | 3% 19 | 3% 24 |
| Shopify | 4% 23 | 2% 18 |
| Webflow | 3% 19 | 2% 19 |
| Weebly | 1% 4 | 3% 24 |

Booking and ordering vendors

| | Montreal | Vancouver |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [OpenTable](https://directindex.org/vendors/opentable) | 31 | 51 |
| [Uber Eats](https://directindex.org/vendors/ubereats) | 32 | 34 |
| [DoorDash Storefront](https://directindex.org/vendors/doordash_storefront) | 16 | 32 |
| [Libro](https://directindex.org/vendors/libro) | 38 | 0 |
| [Toast](https://directindex.org/vendors/toast) | 0 | 37 |
| [DoorDash](https://directindex.org/vendors/doordash) | 7 | 14 |
| [Clover](https://directindex.org/vendors/clover) | 5 | 9 |
| [Square](https://directindex.org/vendors/square) | 0 | 14 |
| [Tock](https://directindex.org/vendors/tock) | 0 | 14 |
| [Resy](https://directindex.org/vendors/resy) | 9 | 0 |

Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (644 in Montreal, 812 in Vancouver). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass.

 Month by month

## Montreal / Vancouver, month by month

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

| Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| October 2026 so far | 940 / 1,027 | 39% / 54% | 39% / 31% | 219 / 375 |

 More

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