Cloudflare Markdown for Agents against Scrunch Agent Pages (AXP) on what an agent reads
In short
Cloudflare announced Markdown for Agents on 2026-02-12: with Accept: text/markdown, the edge fetches the origin HTML and returns markdown. Cloudflare Markdown for Agents: Converted responses carry an x-markdown-tokens header with an estimated token count. Cloudflare Markdown for Agents leads on markdown on request, 2 to 0; Scrunch Agent Pages (AXP): Routing is by user agent, not by Accept header.
The sourced difference
Cloudflare converts the origin HTML to markdown only when a request sends Accept: text/markdown and keeps JSON-LD; Scrunch routes recognised AI user agents to a separate optimised mirror on agentxp.net regardless of the Accept header and does not use llms.txt. Source, read 4 November 2026.
The rubric side by side
| Key | Cloudflare Markdown for Agents | Scrunch Agent Pages (AXP) |
|---|---|---|
| Content in the initial HTML | n/a | 2, on by default |
| Real status codes | n/a | n/a |
| llms.txt generation | 0, not offered | 0, not offered |
| llms.txt linking | 0, not offered | 0, not offered |
| Markdown on request | 2, on by default | 0, not offered |
| JSON-LD output | 2, on by default | 1, with setup |
| OpenAPI exposure | n/a | n/a |
| Fenced, tagged code | 1, with setup | n/a |
| Total | 5 of 10 | 3 of 10 |
The two differ on 2 of the numeric keys: markdown on request, JSON-LD output. Evidence for each score is on the profiles of Cloudflare Markdown for Agents and Scrunch Agent Pages (AXP).
Verdicts by reader
- Technical SEO
- Cloudflare serves the same content in another format; Scrunch serves different content by user agent, which needs review for consistency.
- Docs owner
- Cloudflare is a toggle on paid plans; Scrunch is an enterprise contract.
- Front-end developer
- Cloudflare cannot fix a JavaScript-only page; Scrunch can serve prerendered HTML to agents.
What each leaves undone
Cloudflare Markdown for Agents
- Does not convert pages larger than 6 MiB of HTML.
- Does not run JavaScript, so a client-rendered shell converts to an empty document.
- Is not available on the Free plan per the documentation read.
Scrunch Agent Pages (AXP)
- Does not publish or use llms.txt.
- Does not route Googlebot or Bingbot to the mirror.
Work left to the developer: Cloudflare Markdown for Agents, Low: toggle in Quick Actions on a paid zone; the origin must already put the answer in HTML. Scrunch Agent Pages (AXP), Medium: CDN routing rules plus review of the optimised mirror; enterprise contract.
Sources
- helpcenter.scrunchai.com: the difference https://helpcenter.scrunchai.com/en/articles/12845899-how-axp-serves-content-to-ai-agents, read 4 November 2026
- Cloudflare Markdown for Agents: documentation https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/markdown-for-agents/, read 4 November 2026
Last reviewed 4 November 2026