Web search
SearXNG
Private metasearch engine you host yourself.
open source self-hostable SearXNG project · ?Queries other engines on your behalf and strips the tracking; many public instances in Europe too.
Website ↗ Source ↗ Plan “Web search” with it
How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | SearXNG project (jurisdiction unknown) |
|---|---|
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 256 MB RAM · 0.5 vCPU · 0 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Google Search, DuckDuckGo |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 36,485 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · Python, Docker |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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