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homelab-monitorvsSearXNG

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

homelab-monitorSearXNG
Score52/10086/100
Rank in category#19 of 51 in Monitoring & observability#1 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars22738 962
Stars, last 30 days—+1 396
Stable releases, 12 months230
Latest releasev0.37.0 · 23 Sept 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

SearXNG scores 86/100 against 52/100 for homelab-monitor, so it is the safer default.

homelab-monitor ships more often: 23 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for SearXNG.

SearXNG is growing faster right now (+1 396 stars in 30 days).

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