SearXNG

license

AGPL-3.0(OSI)

source

public(github.com/searxng/searxng)

self-host

only(no official SaaS)

core-gated

ungated

Fully open source under copyleft AGPL-3.0, complete source public, reproducible official Docker image, no proprietary backend or gated hosted tier - self-hosting (or community public instances) is the only distribution.

• https://github.com/searxng/searxng recorded 2026-08-13

  "This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL-3.0)"; repo metadata spdxId AGPL-3.0, "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0"; 35,415 stargazers. Root tree carries searx/, searxng_extra/, client/simple, container/, docs/, tests/, utils/ and one LICENSE. No paid tier, hosted service or enterprise directory.