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Anthropic vs Replicate: AI Search & MCP Readiness

Category: Managed LLM APIs vs Model Deployment · Measured 2026-11-14 UTC via aso-live-probe

Measured verdict: Anthropic and Replicate tie at 53/100 (C) across ASO Studio’s 47-check HTTP, 29-crawler robots.txt, Markdown (/llms.txt, /pricing.md), MCP, OpenAPI, and Schema.org JSON-LD benchmark. Full individual grade-cards: anthropic.com (53/100) · replicate.com (53/100).

Scope & limits: Side-by-side HTTP status codes and HTML structured data captured 2026-11-14 UTC; independent audit not affiliated with Anthropic or Replicate. Technical readiness does not guarantee AI citations or sales.

1. Side-by-Side HTTP & Agent Discovery Telemetry

Signal / Endpoint	anthropic.com	replicate.com
ASO Score & Grade	53/100 (C)	53/100 (C)
Cohort Rank	#29	#30
Edge TTFB · HTML	184ms · 170 KB (48 scripts)	938ms · 254 KB (1 scripts)
`/robots.txt` (29 Bots)	200 · 29/29 (0 explicit)	200 · 29/29 (0 explicit)
`/sitemap.xml`	200	200
`/llms.txt`	404	200
`/llms-full.txt`	404	404
`/pricing.md`	404	404
`/.well-known/ai.txt`	404	404
`/ai/summary.json`	404	404
`/.well-known/mcp.json`	404	404
`/.well-known/agent-card.json`	404	404
`/.well-known/openapi.json`	404	404
JSON-LD `@type`s	`None`	`None`

2. Where Anthropic Leads vs Where Replicate Leads

Where Anthropic (anthropic.com) leads:

Faster root edge response (184ms TTFB vs 938ms)
Leaner root HTML payload (170 KB / 48 scripts vs 254 KB / 1 scripts)

Where Replicate (replicate.com) leads:

Serves live /llms.txt (HTTP 200 vs HTTP 404)

Shared discovery gaps: Both anthropic.com and replicate.com currently return non-200 responses on /llms-full.txt (404/404), /pricing.md (404/404), /.well-known/ai.txt (404/404), /.well-known/mcp.json (404/404), /.well-known/agent-card.json (404/404), /.well-known/openapi.json (404/404).

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