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hothostvsSearXNG

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

hothostSearXNG
Score44/10086/100
Rank in category#80 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#1 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars18138 962
Stars, last 30 days—+1 396
Stable releases, 12 months00
Latest release——
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptPython

Which one should you pick?

SearXNG scores 86/100 against 44/100 for hothost, so it is the safer default.

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

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