Can AI tools
read your prices?
When someone asks an AI assistant "how much does it cost?", it can only quote what it can read. Enter your website or pricing page. We fetch it the way a crawler that does not run JavaScript would, and show which prices are in the HTML, which are only added by JavaScript, and whether robots.txt lets AI crawlers read the page.
We read only the public page and your robots.txt, and use no AI. If you enter your homepage, we follow its link to your pricing page. This checks what the page sends; it does not test real AI assistants or show what any of them will say.
Why it matters
Many pricing pages are built with JavaScript: the server sends an almost empty page and the browser fills in the plans and prices. People never notice. But a crawler that reads only the HTML sees no prices at all. In an analysis of crawler traffic published in December 2024, Vercel and MERJ found that the main AI crawlers they studied, including those of OpenAI and Anthropic, did not run JavaScript, while Google's crawler does. Crawlers change, so treat this as a reason to check, not a rule.
What the results mean
Prices in the HTML: the prices are in the page text your server sends, so any tool that reads the page can find them. Only after JavaScript: the HTML has no prices in its text; they are added in the browser. Only in structured data: prices sit in JSON-LD, which search engines read, but not in the visible text. Contact us: no prices, and the page asks people to get in touch.
We look for amounts with a currency sign or code (£, $, €, GBP, USD and so on). Prices written as words, shown in images, or behind a login are not found. robots.txt rules are read for the exact page we checked, following the robots.txt standard (RFC 9309).
Related
AI crawler checker (every AI crawler, crawler by crawler) · SiteCheck (the full agent-readiness scan) · QuoteDesk for software companies (answering quote requests from your plan prices).
Built with AI. Automated checks are not advice.