SearXNG

license

AGPL-3.0(OSI)

source

public(github.com/searxng/searxng)

self-host

only(no official SaaS)

core features withheld

no

The whole project is published under AGPL-3.0 in a public repository, and its README describes a single product with no paid, hosted or enterprise edition. Nothing is withheld from the published source, so running it yourself or using a community-run instance is the only way to use it.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/searxng/searxng/master/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-28

  GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/searxng/searxng/master/README.rst recorded 2026-09-28

  This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL-3.0).

SearXNG has no download or install channel of its own, so adoption is measured from Docker Hub's pull count for the official searxng/searxng image, averaged over the time since the repository was registered. That average is treated as a floor rather than a precise rate, because a lifetime total understates a growing product whose pull rate has not been flat.

• https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/searxng/searxng recorded 2026-09-28

  "pull_count":86964546

SearXNG aggregates other engines and returns their references without fetching the page content itself, which keeps it level with Serper rather than a step higher. Its Answer result type simply forwards an instant answer from an upstream engine rather than composing a reply from retrieved sources.

• https://docs.searxng.org/dev/search_api.html recorded 2026-09-17

  The search API: endpoints `GET /`, `GET /search`, `POST /`, `POST /search`, with `curl 'https://searx.example.org/search?q=searxng&format=json'` and the json, csv and rss formats. Result types are Main Results, Key-Value, Code, Paper, File, Image, Answer, Correction, Suggestion and Infobox - all shapes of a results page.