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Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

actions-runner-controllerSearXNG
Score71/10086/100
Rank in category#7 of 28 in CI/CD#1 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars6 61038 956
Stars, last 30 days+93+1 390
Stable releases, 12 months60
Latest releasegha-runner-scale-set-0.15.1 · 23 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageGoPython

Which one should you pick?

SearXNG scores 86/100 against 71/100 for actions-runner-controller, so it is the safer default.

actions-runner-controller ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for SearXNG.

If you want the quickest setup, SearXNG is easier to run; actions-runner-controller needs more configuration.

SearXNG is growing faster right now (+1 390 stars in 30 days).

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