[wiseowise]

I'm sorry, where did you get millions of deployments? I see 300k+ Github stars, that have as much worth as a bookmarked page (why don't we count those too?). And 2 mil (alleged) website views, which is also moderately nothing.

[vessenes]

This site digs in more: https://www.trendingtopics.eu/openclaw-numbers/, and refers to stats from gradually.ai. Stepfun flash alone had 3.4 trillion tokens used for openclaw as of mid April. That’s not counting GLM, Kimi, Claude (which was being used so heavily for this that Anthropic instituted emergency policy changes mid billing cycle), etc. In fact, Hermes, a smaller competitor harness from Mistral (153k stars) was large enough to have a custom ‘kill’ pathway in claude code. (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262).

I don’t feel the need to spend all day auditing, and I don’t care very much, but generally I think the combination of Nvidia corporate enthusiasm, available github stats and industry analysis all tells a pretty coherent story: A project with 70k forks on github is likely to have more than, say 700k users. My own fork-to-usage ratio is far less than that.

Put another way, I would suggest that most public evidence points one direction. If you believe something else, that’s fine. But if you want to convince me there’s less than, say, 100k deployments worldwide, I’d want to understand where those numbers came from before being convinced.

[AussieWog93]

It's big enough to get noticed by Anthropic. Your account will be immediately flagged off they get a whiff of you running OpenClaw.

I don't think they would do that unless this was widely deployed.