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searchmysite.netvsTypesense

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

searchmysite.netTypesense
Score44/10079/100
Rank in category#33 of 41 in Search Engines#6 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars14027 062
Stars, last 30 days—+476
Stable releases, 12 months104
Latest releasev1.4.34 · 18 Oct 2026v30.2 · 19 Apr 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languagePythonC

Which one should you pick?

Typesense scores 79/100 against 44/100 for searchmysite.net, so it is the safer default.

searchmysite.net ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 4 for Typesense.

If you want the quickest setup, Typesense is easier to run; searchmysite.net needs more configuration.

Typesense is growing faster right now (+476 stars in 30 days).

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