How Ostia compares
This page compares Ostia with Cloudflare, Limy (an AI-traffic analytics tool), Google Analytics and ChatGPT Business Hub, using each company's own pages.
Web Bot Auth: a way for an AI agent to sign its visits so sites know who sent it.
Already use Cloudflare bot protection? Ostia installs on Cloudflare as one small worker and leaves your settings as they are. Read the answer
| Feature | Ostia | Cloudflare Bot Management / AI Crawl Control | Limy | Google Analytics 4 | Doing nothing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sees agents in a browser that looks like Chrome | Partly for Claude in Chrome. In testing for Comet and Dia. Proof | Partial: agents that sign with Web Bot Auth or are verified bots [2][6] | No Method not published [8] | No Known bots are filtered out [10] | No |
| Works on WooCommerce and Shopify | WooCommerce plugin. Shopify app coming soon. Script tag or Cloudflare Worker elsewhere | When your site runs through your own Cloudflare account | Through your CDN (Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, Netlify, CloudFront) plus a pixel [8] | YesBoth | No |
| Price | Free to start. Paid plans on Pricing | AI Crawl Control on every plan, including Free [1]. Markdown for Agents from Pro, $25 a month [12]. Bot Management for Enterprise: price not public [4] | Not public; demo only [7] | Free | $0 |
Where they overlap with us: Cloudflare names verified bots (bots on public lists of known bots) and agents that sign with Web Bot Auth, serves Markdown for Agents (its own plain-text copy of your pages for AI), and has a free tier. Limy reads agent traffic at your CDN (the network that delivers your site) and ties it to revenue. Ostia's Shopify app is coming soon, and its detection of agents in the shopper's own browser is partial or still in testing. A dash means no: not offered, or not found on their public pages.
Checked 2026-11-10. Numbers in brackets point to the sources below.
- Cloudflare, AI Crawl Control docs: developers.cloudflare.com/ai-crawl-control
- Cloudflare, verified bots and signed agents: developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot/signed-agents
- Cloudflare, Markdown for Agents: developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/markdown-for-agents
- Cloudflare, bot solutions by plan: developers.cloudflare.com/bots/plans
- Cloudflare blog, WebMCP on Commerce.com stores (Oct 21, 2026): blog.cloudflare.com/webmcp-commerce
- Cloudflare blog, personal agents visibility and control (Nov 4, 2026): blog.cloudflare.com/personal-agents-visibility-control
- Limy funding announcement (Jan 2026): prnewswire.com
- Limy, bot monitor setup: support.limy.ai/monitoring/bot-monitor
- Limy co-founder post on agent visits to contact pages and chatbots (Nov 2026): linkedin.com
- Google Analytics, known bot-traffic exclusion: support.google.com/analytics/answer/9888366
- Shopify, Agentic Storefronts: help.shopify.com
- Cloudflare plans: cloudflare.com/plans
- OpenAI, Introducing businesses in ChatGPT: openai.com/index/introducing-businesses-chatgpt
- OpenAI Help, Setting up your business on ChatGPT: help.openai.com
Ostia and ChatGPT Business Hub
Business Hub is OpenAI's page inside ChatGPT where a business claims its listing, uploads a product feed and sees how often ChatGPT mentions its website. ChatGPT shows you ChatGPT. Ostia shows you the AI agents on your own store. Use both.
| Feature | Ostia | ChatGPT Business Hub |
|---|---|---|
| Agents covered | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, AI bots and other AI agents that visit your store. Proof | ChatGPT only [14] |
| Where the numbers come from | Your own store | Inside ChatGPT: 28-day totals, left blank when the numbers are small [14] |
| Pages each agent read | Yes | No |
| Block or allow each agent | Yes | No |
| Your profile and agent inside ChatGPT | No | YesClaimed profile, product feed and a Business Agent [13] |
| Price | Free, $29 or $299 a month. Pricing | Not on OpenAI's pages [13] |
Checked 2026-11-10, the day Business Hub launched in beta. Numbers in brackets point to the sources above.