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

apache-nifiSearXNG
Score72/10086/100
Rank in category#1 of 8 in Data Pipeline#1 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars6 27738 965
Stars, last 30 days+33+1 353
Stable releases, 12 months30
Latest releaserel/nifi-2.12.0 · 13 Sept 2026—
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaPython

Which one should you pick?

SearXNG scores 86/100 against 72/100 for apache-nifi, so it is the safer default.

apache-nifi ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for SearXNG.

If you want the quickest setup, SearXNG is easier to run; apache-nifi needs more configuration.

SearXNG is growing faster right now (+1 353 stars in 30 days).

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