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nut_webguivsSearXNG

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

nut_webguiSearXNG
Score50/10086/100
Rank in category#61 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#1 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars43638 956
Stars, last 30 days—+1 390
Stable releases, 12 months130
Latest releasev0.10.5 · 23 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageRustPython

Which one should you pick?

SearXNG scores 86/100 against 50/100 for nut_webgui, so it is the safer default.

nut_webgui ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for SearXNG.

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

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