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Archived edition, September 2026

Self-Hosted AI Agents Industry Report, September 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growingbut visits without OpenClaw are down 5.9% on a year ago

Visits, year on year, without OpenClaw
-5.9%
Visits, last six months
+95%
Name searches vs October 2025
+195%

Every key number on the self-hosted AI agent market for September 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 16 sites I measure got about 1.1 million visits from Google, 230% more than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 91.5% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for October 2026. This is an archived edition, kept as published; the latest one is here.

Published 15 October 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

Self-hosted AI agent industry report: the key numbers for September 2026

Four numbers for September 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 16 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    1,060,075
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +230.1% year on year, +21.8% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    179,724
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +241.9% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    17%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    114,650
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +195.2% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    794,500
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +226.7% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “self hosted ai agents”, US
    Value
    –
    Period and basis
    not published this month; see the note under the table
  • Searches a month for “self hosted ai agents”, worldwide
    Value
    –
    Period and basis
    not published this month; see the note under the table
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    58,357
    Period and basis
    September 2026; first reading, no year-on-year figure yet
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    91.5%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    99.4%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “self hosted ai agents”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    September 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “self hosted ai agents”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    September 2026; any position checked

Google Ads put US searches for "self hosted ai agents" more than five times higher in July 2026 than in the months before, while Google Trends interest in the US in July 2026 was 19 out of 100, against 66 in June 2026, so the term's search volume is held back on these pages until a later pull confirms it.

Brand-name searches leave out Hermes Agent, Jan and Leon: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+230%), and September 2026 was a better month than August 2026 (+22%). OpenClaw, which first drew search visits in February 2026, gained more visits on its own than the whole market gained in a year. Without it, visits would be down 5.9% on a year ago instead of up 230.1%.

WorldVisits a month to self-hosted AI agent sites, worldwide

0500K1.0M1.5M2.0MOct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 261.1M
Low 113KHigh 1.1MAverage 451K
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Miles explains

Judge this line on the year, not the last dot: visits are 230% above a year ago, and this is the highest month in two years. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

3How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 195% more often than in October 2025 (+195%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

0500K1.0M1.5M2.0MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26115K
Low 37.6KHigh 1.1MAverage 310K
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are up 195%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows more people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 17 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 7 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

06.2512.518.7525Oct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2617
Low 10.5High 22.4Average 16
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    129,041
    Share of the measured countries
    41.8%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    49,812
    Share of the measured countries
    16.1%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    37,559
    Share of the measured countries
    12.2%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    34,143
    Share of the measured countries
    11.1%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    29,798
    Share of the measured countries
    9.7%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    18,492
    Share of the measured countries
    6%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    9,619
    Share of the measured countries
    3.1%

Source: DataForSEO, September 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 17 in every 100 visits. India alone is 41.8% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

OpenClaw gets the most visits, OpenClaw is the name people search for most, and no tracked site ranks on Google for “self hosted ai agents”. The five most-visited sites take 91.5% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

  • OpenClaw
    Visits a month
    757,750
  • Hermes Agent
    Visits a month
    91,272
  • Open WebUI
    Visits a month
    52,885
  • Dify
    Visits a month
    37,836
  • Jan
    Visits a month
    29,788
  • AnythingLLM
    Visits a month
    23,519
  • LibreChat
    Visits a month
    21,887
  • Langflow
    Visits a month
    20,680
  • Activepieces
    Visits a month
    14,357
  • Agent Zero
    Visits a month
    3,348

By US brand-name searches

  • OpenClaw
    Searches a month
    74,000
  • Open WebUI
    Searches a month
    14,800
  • AnythingLLM
    Searches a month
    8,100
  • LibreChat
    Searches a month
    8,100
  • Langflow
    Searches a month
    3,600
  • Activepieces
    Searches a month
    1,900
  • Dify
    Searches a month
    1,300
  • ZeroClaw
    Searches a month
    1,000
  • Khoj
    Searches a month
    720
  • Letta
    Searches a month
    590

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 91.5% of all visits. When one of them gains or loses a big ranking, the whole market total moves with it.

6Who grew and who shrank

The fastest grower in a year was AnythingLLM (+107%); the steepest fall was at Jan (-60%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • AnythingLLM
    A year ago
    11,362
    Now
    23,519
    Change
    +107%

Declining

  • Jan
    A year ago
    74,694
    Now
    29,788
    Change
    -60%
  • LibreChat
    A year ago
    44,962
    Now
    21,887
    Change
    -51%
  • Open WebUI
    A year ago
    89,698
    Now
    52,885
    Change
    -41%
  • Langflow
    A year ago
    32,263
    Now
    20,680
    Change
    -36%
  • Activepieces
    A year ago
    18,503
    Now
    14,357
    Change
    -22%
  • Dify
    A year ago
    44,404
    Now
    37,836
    Change
    -15%

Worldwide search visits, September 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

Corrected 22 October 2026: the figures were rebuilt from the sources; the year-on-year change in visits moved from +336.9% to +245.5%.

Corrected 22 October 2026: the figures were rebuilt from the sources; the year-on-year change in visits moved from +245.5% to +230.1%.

To cite this report: RankDude, “Self-Hosted AI Agents Industry Report, September 2026”, published 15 October 2026, corrected 22 October 2026, https://rankdude.ai/self-hosted-ai-agents/statistics/industry-report/2026-09. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.

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