--- title: New York vs San Francisco: which city's businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/compare/new-york/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 # New York or San Francisco: whose businesses can AI agents use? New York: 4,322 business websites scanned, 58% take a booking or an order on their own site, 33% turn an AI crawler away, 40% score A or B. San Francisco: 1,106 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. | | New York | San Francisco | | --- | --- | --- | | Business websites scanned | 4,322 of 4,874 with a site | 1,106 of 1,248 with a site | | Take a booking or an order on their own site | 58% of 3,384 reachable | **67%** of 825 reachable | | Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | **33%** of 3,384 reachable | 40% of 825 reachable | | Score A or B | 40% 1,741 sites | 40% 445 sites | [New York](https://directindex.org/city/new-york) · [United States](https://directindex.org/country/us) ********** A 658 · B 1083 · C 676 · D 484 · F 1421 [San Francisco](https://directindex.org/city/san-francisco) · [United States](https://directindex.org/country/us) ********** A 181 · B 264 · C 170 · D 89 · F 402 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 | | New York | San Francisco | | --- | --- | --- | | HTML page | 62% 2,091 | 64% 525 | | none | 30% 1,031 | 28% 231 | | elsewhere | 4% 131 | 4% 37 | | PDF | 3% 116 | 3% 27 | | image | 0% 13 | 1% 5 | | on the page | 0% 2 | 0% 0 | Direct booking or ordering | | New York | San Francisco | | --- | --- | --- | | own site | 40% 1,342 | 41% 340 | | none | 25% 844 | 24% 202 | | vendor on own site | 18% 609 | 25% 209 | | third party | 12% 394 | 7% 54 | | marketplace | 6% 195 | 2% 20 | Site builder | | New York | San Francisco | | --- | --- | --- | | Unknown | 43% 1,467 | 37% 304 | | WordPress | 20% 667 | 21% 173 | | Squarespace | 17% 584 | 22% 181 | | BentoBox | 9% 317 | 7% 59 | | Wix | 3% 118 | 6% 46 | | Weebly | 2% 56 | 3% 28 | | Shopify | 2% 63 | 1% 11 | Booking and ordering vendors | | New York | San Francisco | | --- | --- | --- | | [Toast](https://directindex.org/vendors/toast) | 328 | 135 | | [Resy](https://directindex.org/vendors/resy) | 274 | 22 | | [OpenTable](https://directindex.org/vendors/opentable) | 155 | 66 | | [DoorDash Storefront](https://directindex.org/vendors/doordash_storefront) | 107 | 51 | | [BentoBox](https://directindex.org/vendors/bentobox) | 115 | 15 | | [Square](https://directindex.org/vendors/square) | 87 | 37 | | [ChowNow](https://directindex.org/vendors/chownow) | 89 | 13 | | [Grubhub](https://directindex.org/vendors/grubhub) | 73 | 0 | | [DoorDash](https://directindex.org/vendors/doordash) | 0 | 8 | Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (3,384 in New York, 825 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 ## New York / San Francisco, month by month Each cell reads New York / San Francisco. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: [New York](https://directindex.org/city/new-york), [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 | 4,873 / 1,224 | 58% / 67% | 33% / 40% | 1,741 / 445 | 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) · [New York on a map](https://directindex.org/city/new-york/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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