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Updated 10/15/2026 · next update 11/01/2026

Self-hosted AI agent market, September 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growing

Visits, year on year, without OpenClaw
+1.5%
Visits vs August 2026
+24%
Name searches vs October 2025
+313%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 13 self-hosted AI agent sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In September 2026 they got about 987,202 visits, 337% more than a year ago and 24% more than in August 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 107% in a year), where the visitors live and what comes next.

Data from DataForSEO, Tranco, Chrome UX Report, Ahrefs and SerpApi · not a ranking

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

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

  • The tracked sites got 987,202 visits from Google in September 2026, 337% more than a year ago and 24% more than in August 2026. OpenClaw, which first drew search visits in February 2026, accounts for most of the rise (100% of it) and takes 76.8% of the visits. Without it, visits would be up 1.5% on a year ago instead of up 336.9%. OpenClaw made most of the move in September 2026: it gained 132,858 of the market's 189,144 visits; without it, visits to the other sites rose 32.5% on August 2026.
  • Google Ads gives no search figure I can publish for “self hosted ai agents” this month. People searched the site names 107,850 times in the US in September 2026, 313% more often than in October 2025.
  • No tracked site ranks on Google for “self hosted ai agents”. OpenClaw is the most-visited site.
  • 17.2% of visits came from the US (18.1% a year ago), then India, Canada and Germany. The five most-visited sites took 96.8% of all visits.

1How many visits

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+337%), and September 2026 was a better month than August 2026 (+24%). OpenClaw, which first drew search visits in February 2026, accounts for most of the rise (100% of it) and takes 76.8% of the visits. Without it, visits would be up 1.5% on a year ago instead of up 336.9%. OpenClaw made most of the move in September 2026: it gained 132,858 of the market's 189,144 visits; without it, visits to the other sites rose 32.5% on August 2026.

Visits, September 2026
987,202 (+336.9% on a year ago, +23.7% on August 2026)
US visits
169,692 (+315.7% on a year ago)
24-month peak
this month, 987,202

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

0250K500K750K1.0MOct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26987K
Low 83.9KHigh 987KAverage 370K
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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 337% 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.

2How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 313% more often than in October 2025 (+313%). That is the loyalty number, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "self hosted ai agents"
no figure this month
Name searches, September 2026
107,850 in the US (+312.6% since October 2025), 721,100 worldwide

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

0500K1.0M1.5M2.0MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26108K
Low 26.1KHigh 1.1MAverage 301K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Most searched by name, US

  • 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
  • ZeroClaw
    Searches a month
    1,000
  • Khoj
    Searches a month
    720
  • Letta
    Searches a month
    590
  • Agent Zero
    Searches a month
    260

Ordered by US searches for the brand name in September 2026. A measured order, not a ranking.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are up 313%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows more people coming back on purpose.

3Who is on Google's first page

No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “self hosted ai agents”. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

Ordered by US Google position for “self hosted ai agents”, then Tranco rank. A measured order, not a ranking.

Site

  • OpenClaw
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    13,219
    Move in 37 days
    ▲ 1,387
    Search visits
    757,750
  • Open WebUI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    60,701
    Move in 37 days
    ▲ 380
    Search visits
    52,885
  • Jan
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    128,082
    Move in 37 days
    ▲ 6,399
    Search visits
    29,788
  • AnythingLLM
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    145,962
    Move in 37 days
    ▲ 9,361
    Search visits
    23,519
  • Letta
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    151,536
    Move in 37 days
    ▼ 33,520
    Search visits
    966
  • LibreChat
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    188,776
    Move in 37 days
    ▲ 43,194
    Search visits
    21,887
  • Kortix
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,011,183
    Move in 37 days
    ▲ 135,070
    Search visits
    2,984
  • Khoj
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,273,403
    Move in 37 days
    ▲ 63,024
    Search visits
    625
  • Agent Zero
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,434,809
    Move in 37 days
    ▲ 433,054
    Search visits
    3,348
  • Leon
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,520,141
    Move in 37 days
    ▲ 9,545
    Search visits
    1,733
  • Hermes Agent
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    –
    Move in 37 days
    –
    Search visits
    91,272
  • PyGPT
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    –
    Move in 37 days
    –
    Search visits
    407
  • ZeroClaw
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    –
    Move in 37 days
    –
    Search visits
    38

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, September 2026. First 13 of 13 sites shown.

Miles explains

No tracked site sits high on Google for “self hosted ai agents”, so most visits here come from people who already know the names.

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in September 2026: Hermes Agent (+148%); biggest loss: AnythingLLM (-18%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in September 2026

Up this month

  • Hermes Agent
    Aug 26
    36,802
    Sep 26
    91,272
    Change
    +148.0%
  • OpenClaw
    Aug 26
    624,892
    Sep 26
    757,750
    Change
    +21.3%
  • Open WebUI
    Aug 26
    47,643
    Sep 26
    52,885
    Change
    +11.0%
  • LibreChat
    Aug 26
    20,206
    Sep 26
    21,887
    Change
    +8.3%

Down this month

  • AnythingLLM
    Aug 26
    28,526
    Sep 26
    23,519
    Change
    -17.6%
  • Jan
    Aug 26
    30,236
    Sep 26
    29,788
    Change
    -1.5%

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

  • AnythingLLM
    Oct 25
    5,400
    Sep 26
    8,100
    Change
    +50.0%
  • Open WebUI
    Oct 25
    9,900
    Sep 26
    14,800
    Change
    +49.5%

Searched less

  • Khoj
    Oct 25
    1,300
    Sep 26
    720
    Change
    -44.6%

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 17 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
17.2% (18.1% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Canada and Germany

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

06.2512.518.7525Oct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2617.2
Low 9.2High 23.3Average 17
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    115,782
    Share of the measured countries
    40.6%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    48,465
    Share of the measured countries
    17%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    34,811
    Share of the measured countries
    12.2%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    32,796
    Share of the measured countries
    11.5%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    26,585
    Share of the measured countries
    9.3%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    17,625
    Share of the measured countries
    6.2%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    9,003
    Share of the measured countries
    3.2%

Source: DataForSEO, September 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the single biggest market, but only about 17 in every 100 visits. India alone is 40.6% of the countries I measure outside it.

6Links and ratings

The tracked sites had 45,369 referring domains between them in September 2026; this is the first reading, so there is no year-on-year figure yet. The average Domain Rating is 58. OpenClaw has the strongest link profile at DR 88.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

  • OpenClaw
    DR
    88
  • Open WebUI
    DR
    78
  • Letta
    DR
    73
  • AnythingLLM
    DR
    72
  • LibreChat
    DR
    72
  • Jan
    DR
    71
  • Khoj
    DR
    58
  • Agent Zero
    DR
    51

By referring domains

  • OpenClaw
    Domains
    16,327
  • Open WebUI
    Domains
    6,147
  • Hermes Agent
    Domains
    4,561
  • AnythingLLM
    Domains
    4,346
  • Jan
    Domains
    3,590
  • Letta
    Domains
    3,361
  • LibreChat
    Domains
    2,287
  • Kortix
    Domains
    2,135

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, September 2026.