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Self-Hosted AI Agents Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growing

Visits, year on year, without OpenClaw
+1.7%
Visits, last six months
+47%
Name searches vs October 2025
+195%

Every key number on the self-hosted AI agent market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 16 sites I measure got about 1.1 million visits from Google, 214% more than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 91.7% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for November 2026.

Published 1 November 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 October 2026

Four numbers for October 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
    1,090,992
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +214.2% year on year, +2.9% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    200,679
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +261.3% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    18.4%
    Period and basis
    October 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
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    91.7%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    99.4%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “self hosted ai agents”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “self hosted ai agents”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 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 (+214%), and October 2026 was about the same as September 2026 (+3%). OpenClaw, which first drew search visits in February 2026, accounts for most of the rise (99% of it) and takes 67.6% of the visits. Without it, visits would be up 1.7% on a year ago instead of up 214.2%.

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

0500K1.0M1.5M2.0MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 261.1M
Low 114KHigh 1.1MAverage 491K
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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 214% 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 18 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 (%)

06.2512.518.7525Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2618.4
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, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 18 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 91.7% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

  • OpenClaw
    Visits a month
    737,966
  • Hermes Agent
    Visits a month
    142,640
  • Dify
    Visits a month
    48,271
  • Open WebUI
    Visits a month
    46,814
  • AnythingLLM
    Visits a month
    25,056
  • Jan
    Visits a month
    22,671
  • LibreChat
    Visits a month
    22,017
  • Activepieces
    Visits a month
    17,456
  • Langflow
    Visits a month
    17,137
  • Agent Zero
    Visits a month
    3,928

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 91.7% 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 (+91%); the steepest fall was at Jan (-75%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • AnythingLLM
    A year ago
    13,094
    Now
    25,056
    Change
    +91%

Declining

  • Jan
    A year ago
    91,316
    Now
    22,671
    Change
    -75%
  • LibreChat
    A year ago
    44,115
    Now
    22,017
    Change
    -50%
  • Langflow
    A year ago
    33,831
    Now
    17,137
    Change
    -49%
  • Open WebUI
    A year ago
    91,790
    Now
    46,814
    Change
    -49%
  • Activepieces
    A year ago
    18,551
    Now
    17,456
    Change
    -6%
  • Dify
    A year ago
    49,893
    Now
    48,271
    Change
    -3%

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

To cite this report: RankDude, “Self-Hosted AI Agents Industry Report, October 2026”, published 1 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/self-hosted-ai-agents/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.

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