Comparison
StartupHub Agent Readiness Scanner vs Cloudflare
Last updated October 10, 2026.
Cloudflare runs a free public scanner at isitagentready.com and it needs no account. It checks five categories from Discoverability to Commerce and it is a good tool for a quick read on what your site publishes.
StartupHub takes a different approach. Instead of only reading the files, headers and directives that are there to be found, it fetches your site once as each of 17 named AI clients using that operator's own documented user agent and reports the HTTP status and how many words came back.
| Capability | UsStartupHub | CFCloudflare |
|---|---|---|
Free, no sign-up | ||
Discoverability (robots.txt, sitemap, Link headers) | ||
Markdown content negotiation | ||
Bot access control (AI bot rules, Content Signals, Web Bot Auth) | ||
Protocol discovery (MCP card, Agent Skills, WebMCP, API catalog, OAuth) Cloudflare also checks OAuth Protected Resource, Auth.md, an A2A agent card and an ARD manifest. Their protocol list is the widest of the two. | ||
Commerce protocols (x402, MPP, UCP, ACP) | ||
Sends a real request as each named AI client StartupHub fetches the page once per client with that operator's own documented user agent, then reports the HTTP status and how much text came back. Cloudflare reads the signals your site publishes rather than asking each client what it received. | ||
Reports what each client actually got back A robots.txt that says Allow proves nothing if a firewall returns 403 to the client that reads it. | ||
Runs real agent frameworks against the site Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and a plain model with a fetch tool as a control, each given the same seven questions, with the fetch count and the questions it gave up on recorded. | ||
Daily rescan that names the check that broke Not offered by the Cloudflare scanner. A deploy regenerates robots.txt and nothing looks wrong until an assistant stops answering about you. | ||
Public leaderboard Every public scan is ranked. Across 93,985 sites scored the average is 37 and only 477 reach 70. | ||
States which clients it cannot probe, and why xAI publishes no crawler token for Grok, and coding agents fetch through their own tooling with no stable token. StartupHub prints that rather than inventing a row. | n/a | |
x402-mesh participation check Probes /.well-known/x402-mesh.json, the open peer-pricelist and referral protocol. StartupHub is the scanner that scores it. | ||
Paste-ready fix prompts for a coding agent Cloudflare gives written guidance on what to improve first. StartupHub emits a prompt you can paste straight into Claude Code or Cursor. | Partial | |
Open spec (forkable, no vendor lock-in) |
Published signals, or a real request
Cloudflare's checks read what a site publishes, the files, the headers and the directives that are there to be found. StartupHub fetches the site once as each of 17 named AI clients, sending that operator's own documented user agent, and reports the HTTP status and how many words came back. A robots.txt that says Allow proves nothing if a firewall returns 403 to that client. Only a real request finds that out.
StartupHub puts four frameworks on the site, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, OpenCode and a plain model with a fetch tool as a control, and gives each the same seven questions. It records which each answered, fetches needed, and which it gave up on. The control isolates browsing alone.
What happens after the scan
StartupHub rescans a watched site once a day and emails the owner only when a check that was passing stops, naming the check. Across 93,985 sites scored the average is 37 out of 100 and only 477 score 70 or above. Every public scan is ranked on a leaderboard so you can place your own score.
What we do not claim
StartupHub publishes which clients it cannot probe and why. xAI publishes no crawler token for Grok, and coding agents like Cursor and Claude Code fetch through their own tooling with no stable token to impersonate. That limit is stated so the rest of the report can be trusted.
When to use which
- Choose Cloudflare if you want a fast free read of the signals your site publishes across its five categories.
- Choose StartupHub if you need what each of 17 named clients received and what an agent could do inside.
- Run both. The fixes each scanner asks for are the same fixes and the two scanners do not conflict.
Run both scanners on your site
Free, no signup. The two together give you a full picture of how an AI agent experiences your site: discovery, execution, and commerce.
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