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horillavsSearXNG

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

horillaSearXNG
Score60/10086/100
Rank in category#3 of 9 in Human Resource Management (HRM)#1 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars1 47838 961
Stars, last 30 days+47+1 395
Stable releases, 12 months120
Latest release2.2.0 · 21 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseLGPL-2.1AGPL-3.0
Main languageHTMLPython

Which one should you pick?

SearXNG scores 86/100 against 60/100 for horilla, so it is the safer default.

horilla ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for SearXNG.

SearXNG is growing faster right now (+1 395 stars in 30 days).

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