Searx
Searx is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services.
Platform availability
Available on 1 of 9 platforms
- Unraid
- TrueNAS (not listed)
- Umbrel (not listed)
- ZimaOS (not listed)
- Proxmox (not listed)
- Helm (not listed)
- Mac (not listed)
- Windows (not listed)
- Linux (not listed)
Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.
64/100 Good
- Maintained
- 60last commit 154 days ago
- Popular
- 8313,556 GitHub stars
- Easy to install
- 351 install platform, install notes, Docker image
- Light to run
- 85512 MB minimum RAM
- Security check
- 60no serious findings, 5 minor, CI, tests, OpenSSF Scorecard 5.2/10
Availability: platform listings confirmed today, links checked 17 days ago
- GitHub stars
- 13,556
- Open issues
- 337
- Last commit
- 2026-05-14
- Latest release
- v1.1.0
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Activity
- stale
Checked 9 days ago - source: GitHub (searx/searx)
Resources & Compatibility
Minimum requirements: 512 MB RAM, 1 CPU core(s), 300 MB disk. ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is not supported.
Checked 17 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs
First-install notes
- Fill in your .env file first Before starting the stack, edit the .env file and set SEARXNG_HOSTNAME to the address you will use, such as mysearx.example.com, and set LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL if you want a real HTTPS certificate. These values are copied into Caddy's web front-door config, so a missing or wrong hostname can make the site unreachable or certificate setup fail. source
- Start it and keep the Docker volumes Run `docker compose up -d` to start Caddy, Valkey, and SearXNG in the background; Valkey is a fast in-memory cache used by the app. This also creates Docker volumes, which are separate storage areas managed by Docker, named caddy-data, caddy-config, valkey-data2, and searxng-data; keep them safe because they hold the setup's state, and deleting them can wipe settings or cached data. source
- Make it start again after a reboot If you want SearXNG to come back automatically when your server reboots, copy the systemd service template, adjust the install path if needed, then enable and start it with systemctl, the Linux service manager. Without enabling it, the setup may stay stopped after a reboot until you start it manually. source
Fetched 17 days ago - each note links to its source
Variants
Alternatives (12)
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Checked 14 days ago - source: AlternativeTo
Common questions
Does Searx crawl the web itself?
No, it queries existing search-engine APIs and applies its own sorting rather than acting as a standalone crawler.
Does running Searx expose my server IP to the searched engines?
Upstream connections can reveal your server IP to the engines queried, and using a VPS only shifts that trust to the VPS provider.
Is rate limiting enabled by default on a self-hosted Searx?
It has strict rate limiting by default, and tuning it can help protect a public instance from bots.
Can Searx be installed with common web servers?
The documentation includes installation paths using uwsgi with nginx or Apache, as well as Docker.
Answers sourced from searx.github.io, www.reddit.com, www.reddit.com, www.reddit.com
Community
- Anyone have experience with Searx Search Engine? : r/selfhosted - Reddit (reddit)
- Searx Self-Hosted Ideas/Concerns : r/selfhosted - Reddit (reddit)
- selfhost searx : r/selfhosted - Reddit (reddit)
- Self-hosted search engine - Searx : r/selfhosted - Reddit (reddit)
- Searx self-hosting questions : r/Searx - Reddit (reddit)
- Searx: self-hosted metasearch engine : r/selfhosted - Reddit (reddit)
Collected 16 days ago - public community threads