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hastic-servervsSearXNG

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

hastic-serverSearXNG
Score39/10086/100
Rank in category#87 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#1 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars33138 956
Stars, last 30 days—+1 390
Stable releases, 12 months00
Latest release——
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

SearXNG scores 86/100 against 39/100 for hastic-server, so it is the safer default.

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

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

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