Self-hosted AI agent statistics, September 2026

Four numbers for September 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 13 self-hosted AI agent sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google987Kvisits+337% vs a year ago
• Most visited site758KvisitsOpenClaw, 77% of all
• Expected in October992Kvisits+0.5% vs last month

• 987,202 Google visits went to the 13 self-hosted AI agent sites RankDude tracks in September 2026, 337% more than a year earlier (about the same without OpenClaw).
• Growing: the self-hosted AI agent market is growing.
• 77% of all visits go to OpenClaw, the most-visited self-hosted AI agent; the five most-visited take 96.8%.
• 17.2% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Canada and Germany.
• 991,886 visits expected in October 2026, likely between 626K and 1.4M.

Source: DataForSEO, Google Ads and Google Trends, September 2026, compiled by RankDude.

Growing.

Over two years, visits went from 83.9K in October 2024 to a high of 987K in September 2026, and stand at 987K in September 2026. Much of the year’s change is one site, OpenClaw, which is why I also look at the market without it.

Visits, year on year

+2%

Visits, last six months

+129%

Name searches, US

+313%

Busiest month (2 years)

September 2026, 987K visits

Miles explains

I only call a market growing when visits and name searches agree. Here visits are level and name searches are up, so they don’t agree yet.

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Google Trends barely registered “self hosted ai agents” until February 2026; interest then climbed to its peak in May 2026.

Google Trends now

12/100

Five-year peak

83/100 in May 2026

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More visits than a year ago only because of OpenClaw, more people searching by name, and the next six months look like growth.

The losers, led by Jan, lost most of their search visits (-60%).

Visits vs August 2026

+24%

Biggest gain this month

Hermes Agent +148%

Biggest loss this month

AnythingLLM -18%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like AnythingLLM’s +107% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

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I expect October 2026 to be about the same as September 2026, and the next six months to look up.

The forecast carries the level of recent months forward, not the trend line, because that version missed least when tested on past months.

Expected in October 2026

991,886 visits

Likely range

626K to 1.4M

Expected in April 2027

1.1M +7%

Past forecasts in range

5 of 6 months

Miles explains

Read the range, not the single number: tested on the last 6 months, my method landed inside its range 5 times.

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The most visited is OpenClaw, with 757,750 visits a month, 77% of all visits.

OpenClaw and Hermes Agent together hold 86% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 8 sites share 3.2%.

Top five sites

96.8% of all visits

Visits from the US

17.2%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Canada and Germany

Sites tracked

13

Miles explains

OpenClaw alone has 77% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

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Yes. Every number on these pages comes from two CSV files, free to download.

Cite as: Miles Foster, “Self-Hosted AI Agents Statistics, September 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/self-hosted-ai-agents/statistics

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