Hister vs SearXNG

Comparing two open source alternatives to Kagi and Google Search and Bing and DuckDuckGo. Use the comparison below to decide which one fits your needs.

Hister

AGPL-3.0

Private, self-hosted search engine that indexes the pages you visit and the files you keep for full-text and semantic search.

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SearXNG

AGPL-3.0

A free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services without tracking or profiling users.

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Side-by-side comparison

	Hister	SearXNG
License	AGPL-3.0	AGPL-3.0
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	4,909	37,364
Forks	203	3,397
Open Issues	61	214
Last Commit	Sep 18, 2026	Sep 20, 2026
First Released	Jan 4, 2026	Apr 12, 2021
Categories	Bookmark & Content Management Tools AI Agent Builders	Search Tools
Tags	#search #privacy #self hosted #mcp #semantic-search	#search engine #privacy #self hosted

GitHub stars over time

Hister

SearXNG37,364

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