- Visibility40
- Citations1
- Sentiment66
- Site quality60
- AI readiness29
AI assistants name Coinbase in 50% of their answers, much more often than the typical company in the finance sector. Its overall score is 39 out of 100, ranking 437th of 2,047 companies. The Coinbase website passes 4 out of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the finance market: none named Coinbase. AI assistants named it in 30 of 60 answers (50.0%). The typical finance company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Coinbase ranks 5 of 205 in its sector.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
205 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Best cryptocurrency exchange platforms for beginners in the US”
For beginners in the US looking to enter the cryptocurrency market, several platforms offer user-friendly experiences, strong security, and essential features. Coinbase is widely regarded as the top choice due to its simplicity, guided onboarding, and clear interface, making it an ideal starting point for most US crypto beginners.
Here are some of the best cryptocurrency exchange platforms for beginners in the US:
Coinbase:
Pros: Extremely beginner-friendly interface, simple onboarding process, familiar funding options, broad asset support, and strong regulatory standing. …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPassed
An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersPassed
HTTP Link headers on the homepage that point agents at machine readable resources.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryPassed
SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtPassed
An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPartly met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogPassed
A linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog listing APIs, specs and docs.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryPassed
OpenID Connect or OAuth metadata agents can use to sign in.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsPassed
A skills index at /.well-known/agent-skills/index.json that agents can load.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPNot met
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 55 of 100 · 100% of checks could run · checked on October 3, 2026 · www.coinbase.com · 2,047 companies scanned
4 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- Not metXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Passedllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- Not metToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- PassedAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- PassedOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.
- GPTBotpartly
- ClaudeBotpartly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extendedpartly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBotpartly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBotpartly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBotpartly
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-Userpartly
- Claude-Userpartly
- Perplexity-Userpartly
- DuckAssistBotpartly
- MistralAI-Userpartly
Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as S&P 500.
- Is using a centralized crypto exchange safe for holding digital assets?
- Best cryptocurrency exchange platforms for beginners in the US
- How to transfer crypto assets from an exchange platform to a hardware wallet
- Why is my bitcoin purchase pending on a crypto trading platform?
- What to do if my cryptocurrency withdrawal is delayed on an exchange?
- What are some peer-to-peer options for trading cryptocurrencies in the US?
- Which crypto trading platforms support the widest range of altcoins in the US?
- How to set up recurring purchases for cryptocurrencies as an individual investor
- What are typical fees for trading crypto on US-based exchange platforms?
- Alternatives to centralized crypto exchanges for buying digital assets
- Spot trading vs margin trading on digital asset exchanges
- Easiest way to buy bitcoin for individual investors
- Do crypto exchanges in the US offer discounts for high-volume traders?
- Are the fees on major US crypto exchanges worth it for small investors?
- Crypto trading app vs web platform: what are the pros and cons?
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.
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