Open Source Searx AlternativesTop Web Search & Image Search Engines like Searx

The best open source alternative to Searx is SearXNG. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Searx and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Searx are YaCy, MetaGer, Openverse and Stract.

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  1. SearXNG icon
     133 likes

    SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

    105 SearXNG alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Docker
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Cloudron
     
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    SearXNG vs Searx Comments
    Gabriel Oliveira
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    Searx got discontinued and SearXNG is a fork of the project who still on active development.

    • SearXNG is Free and Open SourceSearx is also Free and Open Source
    • SearXNG is LightweightSearx is not according to our users
  2. YaCy icon
     146 likes

    YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of...

    91 YaCy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. MetaGer icon
     59 likes

    MetaGer is an open source metasearch engine focused on protecting users' privacy. Based in Germany, and hosted as a cooperation between the German NGO 'SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge' and the University of Hannover, the system is built on 24...

    90 MetaGer alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Tor
     
  4. Stract icon
     37 likes

    Stract is an open source search engine where the user has the ability to see exactly what is going on and customize almost everything about their search results. It's a search engine made for hackers and tinkerers just like ourselves.

    68 Stract alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Whoogle Search icon
     35 likes

    Ad-free, privacy-focused meta-search providing Google results without tracking, JavaScript, cookies, or AMP links, supporting proxies and autocomplete. Customizable, Docker-deployable, mobile-ready, with theme options and additional privacy features.

    91 Whoogle Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. 4get icon
     22 likes

    This is a metasearch engine that gets results from other engines, and strips away all of the tracking parameters and Microsoft bullshit they add. Most of the other alternatives to Google jack themselves off about being ""privacy respecting"" or whatever the...

    66 4get alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Tor
     
  7. This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Mwmbl Search icon
     15 likes

    Mwmbl is a non-profit, ad-free, free-libre and free-lunch search engine with a focus on useability and speed. At the moment it is little more than an idea together with a proof of concept implementation of the web front-end and search technology on a small index.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. LibreX icon
     10 likes

    LibreX gives you results from Google, Qwant, Ahmia and popular torrent sites without spying on you.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Free anonymous search engine for the Tor network and dark web. No cookies, no JavaScript, no logs. Indexes .onion hidden services with a Threat Intelligence API for security professionals.

    66 Onion Search Engine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
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