SearXNG
SearXNG is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Search Engines category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Python. It ships a Docker image. It has 38,856 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 38,856
- Forks
- 3,535
- Open issues
- 176
- Commits, last 12 months
- 816
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- No releases
- Created
- Apr 12, 2021
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 816 commits in 12 months.
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 816 |
| Latest release | No GitHub releases |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 0 |
| Open issues | 176 |
| Open pull requests | 29 |
| Good first issues | 2 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Apr 12, 2021 |
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About SearXNG
Internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases (Fork of Searx).
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/searxng/searxng.
Topics
- metasearch
- search
- python
- searxng
- search-engine
- searx
- bing
- brave
- degoogle
- duckduckgo
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Is SearXNG free and open source?
Yes. SearXNG is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run SearXNG with Docker?
Yes. SearXNG provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to SearXNG?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to SearXNG include ElasticSearch, MeiliSearch and Typesense.
Is SearXNG actively maintained?
The most recent commit to SearXNG was on Oct 25, 2026 with 816 commits in the past twelve months. It had 176 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.