How many weekly npm downloads?

1.27 million weekly npm downloads.

Is OpenClaw actually dead?

No. 15 releases in first 19 days of May 2026 with 850+ contributors.

How fast is the release cadence?

15 releases in 19 days of May 2026.

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OpenClaw Hits 373K GitHub Stars, Fastest-Growing Open Source Project in History

Despite the viral 'OpenClaw is Dead' narrative, the project hit 374K stars, 1.27M weekly npm downloads, 850+ contributors, and shipped 15 releases in the first 19 days of May 2026. Code activity contradicts reputational decline.

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A benchmarking harness that runs identical coding tasks across OpenClaw, Nanobot, OpenFang, and other agent frameworks and publishes ranked results

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Nanobot hit 34K stars by claiming to be OpenClaw in 4K lines of Python. OpenFang launched a Rust agent OS with 16K stars in 4 days. Developers have no way to compare these frameworks on actual performance, speed, cost, and code quality. Everyone picks based on GitHub stars and vibes. This tool runs identical coding tasks across every major agent framework and publishes reproducible benchmarks with cost, speed, correctness, and token efficiency so developers can pick the right tool.

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