OpenClaw grabbed 3 in 4 visits. Everyone else stood still.

OpenClaw had almost no visits from Google until March 2026.

By May it had about 664,000 a month. In September it hit about 758,000.

That one site explains 99.5% of the market's rise in a year. Think about that for a second.

So what is this thing, and where did it come from?

OpenClaw is an AI personal assistant that went viral early this year.

TechCrunch reported in February that it was first called Clawdbot, then Moltbot.

Its creator, Peter Steinberger, then joined OpenAI.

OpenAI's boss Sam Altman said OpenClaw would live in a foundation as an open source project. He said OpenAI would keep supporting it.

Hermes Agent had fewer than 100 visits from Google in April.

By September it had about 91,000. That is up 148% in a single month.

It is now the second most visited site in the group. Not bad for a newcomer.

But someone has to lose when two names grow this fast.

Jan fell from about 75,000 visits to about 30,000 in a year. That is a 60% drop.

LibreChat lost about half its visits. Open WebUI fell from about 90,000 to about 53,000, though it is still third.

One older name bucked the trend. AnythingLLM more than doubled, to about 23,500.

My guess? People now want an agent that does jobs for them. The data shows the shift, not the reason.

US searches for these tools' names peaked at about 1.06 million a month in February and March.

Then they fell every month, to about 108,000 in September.

Here's the odd part. Visits kept climbing anyway.

You can see every month on the self-hosted AI agent statistics page.

Visits are DataForSEO estimates of visits from Google search, worldwide, from October 2024 to September 2026.

They are not people or total traffic, and two odd spikes were smoothed. Name searches are US Google Ads data, and my methodology has the rest.

Source: RankDude analysis of DataForSEO data, September 2026.