AI agents Hacker News commenters recommend
16 AI agents were recommended on Hacker News between November 2025 and October 2026. We rank them by how many separate people recommend each one.
None of the 16 AI agents earns the badge. The most recommended is OpenClaw: 379 recommend it and 856 criticize it.
All 16 AI agents, ranked
Select a column heading to sort. Mixed counts the people with mixed feelings, who count toward neither side. Approval share is recommenders out of recommenders and critics; the tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs. Months counts the months, out of 12, in which someone recommended it. Had for is the median time people say they have had or used it, shown when 10 or more said.
| Rank | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenClaw | 379 | 248 | 856 | 31% | 10 | 1 mo39 people | — |
| 2 | Muse by Meta | 88 | 46 | 212 | 29% | 5 | — | — |
| 3 | NanoClaw | 31 | 12 | 31 | 50% | 5 | — | — |
| 4 | Clawdbot | 30 | 33 | 87 | 26% | 2 | — | — |
| 5 | Manus AI | 22 | 15 | 26 | 46% | 7 | — | — |
| 6 | Dots by OpenAI | 16 | 11 | 64 | 20% | 4 | — | — |
| Tied 7 | Instinct personal agent | 13 | 3 | 9 | 59% | 3 | — | — |
| Tied 7 | Moltbot | 13 | 11 | 34 | 28% | 2 | — | — |
| 9 | ChatGPT Work | 11 | 4 | 38 | 22% | 4 | — | — |
| 10 | ZeroClaw | 9 | 1 | 4 | 69% | 3 | — | — |
| Tied 11 | Eve Managed OpenClaw | 8 | 3 | 3 | 73% | 6 | — | — |
| Tied 11 | Claude Duet | 8 | 6 | 30 | 21% | 1 | — | — |
| Tied 11 | Talorys | 8 | 4 | 10 | 44% | 1 | — | — |
| 14 | Nanobot | 6 | 1 | 6 | 50% | 2 | — | — |
| Tied 15 | PicoClaw | 5 | 1 | 2 | 71% | 5 | — | — |
| Tied 15 | zclaw | 5 | 0 | 4 | 56% | 2 | — | — |
How we rank
Rank is the number of separate people who recommend a product in a Hacker News comment between November 2025 and October 2026. Someone who praises the same AI agent in five threads counts once, in the column of their latest opinion.
A AI agent earns the badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it.
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Counts come from Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 2 Nov 2026. How it works