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Self-hosted Search Engines

15 projects

15 self-hostable, open-source search engines tools you can run on your own hardware — no SaaS lock-in. Ranked by our Recommended score, a quality blend of deployability, maintenance, security signals, popularity and metadata confidence (not raw stars). Each listing shows exactly how hard it is to self-host and what it depends on.

SearXNG

Search Engines·Python

Internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases (Fork of Sea…

Docker Compose
38kActive

Hister

Search Engines·Go

Personal web search engine with automatic indexing of visited websites.

Docker Compose
5.8kActive

bitmagnet

Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP)·Go

BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and…

Docker Compose
4.4kActive

MeiliSearch

Search Engines·Rust

Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API.

Docker Compose
59kActive

Typesense

Search Engines·C++

Blazing fast, typo-tolerant open source search engine optimized for developer happiness and ease of use.

Docker Compose
27kActive

OpenSearch

Search Engines·Java

Distributed and RESTful search engine.

Docker Compose
14kActive

Manticore Search

Search Engines·C++

Full-text search and data analytics, with fast response time for small, medium and big data (alternative to…

Docker Compose
12kActive

Yacy

Search Engines·Java

Peer based, decentralized search engine server.

Docker Compose
4.0kActive

Fess

Search Engines·Java

Powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server.

Docker Compose
1.1kActive

Meme Search

Search Engines

AI-powered meme search engine.

Docker Compose
752Active

Websurfx

Search Engines·Rust

Aggregate results from other search engines (metasearch engine) without ads while keeping privacy and secur…

Docker Compose
1.2kActive

Amgix

Search Engines

Hybrid search engine built for flexible deployment and real-world messy data.

Docker Compose
8Active

Sosse

Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP)·Python

Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving.

Docker Compose
2Unknown

Apache Solr

Search Engines·Java

Enterprise search platform featuring full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing…

Docker Compose
1.7kActive

Aleph

Knowledge Management Tools

Tool for indexing large amounts of both documents (PDF, Word, HTML) and structured (CSV, XLS, SQL) data for…

Docker Compose
2.4kMaintained

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