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PontoonvsSearXNG

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

PontoonSearXNG
Score44/10086/100
Rank in category#8 of 8 in Data Pipeline#1 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars24438 965
Stars, last 30 days+0+1 353
Stable releases, 12 months00
Latest release——
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

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

SearXNG is growing faster right now (+1 353 stars in 30 days).

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