Self-hosted AI agent statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 16 self-hosted AI agent sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google1.1Mvisits+214% vs a year ago
• Most visited site738KvisitsOpenClaw, 68% of all
• Expected in November1.1Mvisits+2% vs last month

• 1,090,992 Google visits went to the 16 self-hosted AI agent sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 214% more than a year earlier (about the same without OpenClaw).
• Growing: the self-hosted AI agent market is growing.
• 68% of all visits go to OpenClaw, the most-visited self-hosted AI agent; the five most-visited take 91.7%.
• 18.4% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Canada and Germany.
• 1,112,401 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 891K and 1.3M.

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

Growing.

Over two years, visits went from 114K in November 2024 to a high of 1.1M in October 2026, and stand at 1.1M in October 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

+47%

Name searches, US

+195%

Busiest month (2 years)

October 2026, 1.1M 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.

Open the Self-hosted AI agent market demand page

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

Open the Self-hosted AI agent search trends page

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 (-75%).

Visits vs September 2026

+3%

Biggest gain this month

Hermes Agent +56%

Biggest loss this month

Jan -24%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like AnythingLLM’s +91% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

Open the Self-hosted AI agent monthly analysis page

I expect November 2026 to be about the same as October 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 November 2026

1,112,401 visits

Likely range

891K to 1.3M

Expected in May 2027

1.2M +7%

Past forecasts in range

6 of 6 months

Miles explains

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

Open the Self-hosted AI agent monthly forecast page

The most visited is OpenClaw, with 737,966 visits a month, 68% of all visits.

OpenClaw and Hermes Agent together hold 81% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 11 sites share 8.3%.

Top five sites

91.7% of all visits

Visits from the US

18.4%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Canada and Germany

Sites tracked

16

Miles explains

OpenClaw alone has 68% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the Self-hosted AI agent industry report page

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

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

Open the Self-hosted AI agent data page