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Deploy SearXNG as a fully managed service starting at €9/mo. Get automated backups, SSL, updates, support and monitoring included.

SearXNG is an open-source metasearch engine that queries up to 240+ search services in parallel — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, arXiv, and more. It returns a deduplicated, tracker-free result page without storing user history.

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SearXNG

SearXNG

STARTING AT

€9/month
Automated Backups
Monitoring
Automated Updates
Auto SSL

USAGE

Unlimited
Human Support
Custom Domains
Terminal Access
File Manager Access
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ABOUT THE SOFTWARE

What is SearXNG

SearXNG is a free, open-source metasearch engine that queries up to 240+ search services in parallel and returns a deduplicated, ranked, tracker-free result page. No accounts. No query logs. No advertising profile. The code is AGPL-3.0; the project is community-maintained.

SearXNG was forked from the original Searx project in mid-2021 by maintainers who wanted a faster patch cadence and active engine observability. The upstream Searx repository was archived in September 2023, and SearXNG has been the de-facto live project since.

It ships on a rolling release — there are no tagged stable versions; the current master branch is the recommended deployment, identified by build strings like 2026.5.16. The project runs on Python with Flask, uWSGI, and Valkey for rate-limiting state. Reference deployments use Docker Compose to wire SearXNG, a reverse proxy, and Valkey together.

The catalog of engines spans general web search, images, videos, news, science, files, social media, IT, music, and maps. The community runs roughly 70+ public instances tracked at searx.space, and tens of thousands of private installations are deployed via Docker on homelabs and corporate networks.

FEATURES

What SearXNG does

SearXNG sends one query to many engines in parallel and presents the results without trackers, redirects, or profile-building. The categories cover general search, images, videos, news, files, IT, science, music, social media, and maps. Plugins extend it. The JSON API turns it into a search backend.

Multi-engine aggregation

One query goes to up to 240+ sources. Results are deduplicated, ranked, and returned as a single ranked list.

JSON API

/search?q=…&format=json returns ranked results for use as a RAG search backend, agent tool, or external integration.

Image proxy

Loads engine images through the SearXNG instance so the user's browser never speaks directly to the upstream tracker.

Tor outbound routing

Optional outbound proxying through Tor for queries where source IP anonymity matters more than latency.

Category routing

Switch between general, images, videos, news, science, files, IT, and maps from the same query bar with no resubmit.

Bangs

Route a single query to a specific engine with prefixes like !g, !ddg, !wp, !yt, or !arxiv. The syntax matches DuckDuckGo's.

Custom engines

Add private or specialised engines via Python plugins. The upstream supports community-contributed engines like Tube Archivist.

Tracker stripping

URL parameters like utm_*, gclid, fbclid, and engine redirect wrappers are removed before results render.

WHAT'S ALWAYS INCLUDED

Every app. Fully managed.
Nothing extra to pay for.

Every app you deploy includes the full managed service — security, backups, updates, and support from day one.

Automatic updates and patches

Apps run the latest stable version. Security patches applied silently, with rollback if needed.

Daily off-site backups

Multiple daily backups in redundant off-site locations. One-click restore if anything goes wrong.

24/7 uptime monitoring

Continuous monitoring with instant alerting. We respond before you notice.

SSL, firewall, DDoS protection

Auto-renewing SSL, hardened firewall rules, DDoS mitigation on every deployment.

Performance and scaling

We monitor resource usage continuously. When your app needs more headroom, we flag it and upgrade with your explicit approval.

Dedicated engineering support

Real engineers on chat. DNS, SMTP & migration help. All included in €9.

WHY MANAGED

Why teams pick managed SearXNG

On February 12, 2026, Brave Search shut down its free API tier and moved every developer to metered billing at $5 per 1,000 requests. The Bing Search API closed in August 2025. For teams building RAG pipelines, AI agents, or private search for a small group, self-hosted SearXNG is the remaining low-cost path. Running it well is the part nobody talks about.

The operational gotcha is the same one that breaks most community installations: upstream engines detect SearXNG traffic as automated and respond with CAPTCHAs or IP-level blocks, sometimes within hours of the instance going live. The fix involves three settings — link_token bot detection enabled, trusted_proxies configured for the front-end reverse proxy, and Valkey set up for persistent state — plus active engine curation, because Google and Bing change their HTML weekly and the upstream parsers need patches to keep working.

We run a tuned limiter.toml from day one. The link-token method injects a hidden CSS endpoint that real browsers fetch and headless scrapers don't, so legitimate users pass and abuse traffic gets dropped before it hits the upstream engines. The trusted_proxies entry stops the reverse proxy from making every legitimate user appear to share one IP. Valkey persists the sliding-window state across container restarts, so a deploy doesn't wipe your users' rate limits.

We also keep the engine list working. When Bing changes a result-card class name and the parser breaks, we ship the patch — usually within a day, sometimes the same hour. The instance comes with the JSON API enabled, image proxy on, and bangs configured, so tools like Open WebUI, LangChain, LiteLLM, and Perplexica work without further setup.

REVIEWS

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USE CASES

Three teams who run SearXNG on DANIAN

These are representative team types we set up most often. Each starts with the same flat €9 plan.

12-PERSON AI ENGINEERING TEAM

A search backend for the RAG pipeline after Brave's API tier closed

Germany region for sub-200ms latency to the inference cluster. JSON API enabled with the rate limiter raised for the agent IPs. Open WebUI, LangChain, and a small custom MCP server query the instance at roughly 60,000 searches per month. Per-query cost on a metered API would land around $300 per month.

4-PERSON OSINT FIRM

Keeping client recon queries off shared search engines

Singapore region for proximity to the analyst team. Outbound queries route through Tor for sensitive engagements; the instance retains no logs. Custom engines added for Wayback CDX, Shodan, and HaveIBeenPwned. Each query fans out to 18 engines without exposing the firm's IP or the target's name to upstream telemetry.

INVESTIGATIVE NEWSROOM · 25 REPORTERS

Source-protective research infrastructure across the desk

Canada region, behind the newsroom VPN. SafeSearch off, image proxy on, history retention zero. Reporters use bangs (!wp, !arxiv, !yt, !archive) to route queries to authoritative sources without exposing topics to ad-network profiling. The desk avoids a per-seat search SaaS bill that would scale with the masthead.

COMPARISON

Four ways to run SearXNG

The four paths to private metasearch have different cost shapes. A SaaS like Kagi scales linearly with seats. A self-hosted VPS adds ongoing operational time and engine maintenance. A home server adds hardware, electricity, and bandwidth. Managed by us, the price is flat and the operational time is zero.

 PATH1 SEAT5 SEATS 10 SEATS OPS TIMENOTES
Kagi (Team Professional)
$10/mo$50/mo$100/mo0 hoursPer-seat; curated search, not aggregation; no self-hosted JSON API for RAG
Self-host on a VPS
$44+/mo$44+/mo$44+/mo1–2 hrs/mo$24 production-class VPS + backup + monitoring. Plus engine-breakage patching weekly.
Home server
€210–667/mo€210–667/mo€210–667/mo2–4 hrs/moDell PowerEdge T350 or equivalent amortised + electricity + business uplink + off-site backup
DANIAN Managed SearXNG€9/mo€9/mo€9/mo0 hoursFlat regardless of seats. limiter.toml, Valkey, engine curation, JSON API all included.

Kagi is curated search; SearXNG aggregates. The comparison is on cost shape and operational ownership, not feature parity. VPS row uses a $24/month production-class instance plus $5/mo backup and $15/mo monitoring as the realistic floor for a production setup.

BY INDUSTRY

SearXNG for specific industries

A metasearch engine is only useful when the operational constraints around it fit the work. Source protection in a newsroom, query anonymity in a security firm, citation-friendly retrieval in an AI pipeline, filtered private search in a school — each one bends the configuration in a different direction.

The European Media Freedom Act, in force since August 2025, obliges journalistic-source confidentiality and prohibits surveillance of journalists' communications. U.S. shield laws cover similar ground at state level. Search queries are part of the journalistic process, and routing them through ad-supported search engines creates a paper trail outside the newsroom's control.

We configure the instance with query logging disabled, image proxy on, and, for sensitive assignments, outbound proxying via Tor enabled. A typical workflow: the desk runs a target name across 240+ engines in one query; results dedupe and render without the reporter's IP or browser fingerprint reaching Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo. The instance is pinned to a region chosen by the desk — Germany for European outlets, Canada/USA for North American — and the public-instance flag is off so the bot detector treats every legitimate reporter as a trusted IP.
The OWASP LLM Top 10 lists Sensitive Information Disclosure as a recurring failure mode when production user queries leak into third-party APIs. Acceptable-use policies on internal AI tools increasingly forbid shipping user prompts to commercial search APIs.

We configure the JSON API enabled, agent IPs whitelisted from the rate limiter, and the engine subset tuned for citation-friendly sources — Wikipedia, GitHub, Stack Overflow, arXiv, Crossref. A typical workflow: an Open WebUI or LangChain agent calls /search?q=…&format=json&categories=general,science and gets 20 ranked results in under 200 milliseconds, which become RAG context for the LLM. After Brave Search API moved to metered billing at $5 per 1,000 queries on February 12, 2026, a 100,000-search-per-month app paid $500 a month for the same data. The flat-rate alternative cuts the line item by roughly 98%.
NIST SP 800-115, the Technical Guide to Information Security Testing, recommends operational anonymity during reconnaissance. PTES Pre-engagement Interactions and OSSTMM 3 align. Recon queries against client targets must not appear in the firm's general search history or get profiled by ad networks downstream.

We configure outbound traffic over Tor for sensitive engagements, query log retention at zero, and the instance reachable only from the firm's Tailscale or WireGuard network. A typical workflow: the analyst queries a target company name and three executives across 240+ engines in a single fan-out; the SearXNG instance forwards no client IP, no Authorization header, no cookies to upstream engines. Custom engines added for Shodan, HaveIBeenPwned, and Wayback CDX let recon stay inside one interface. URL trackers — utm_*, gclid, fbclid, redirect wrappers — are stripped from results before render.
CIPA requires E-Rate-funded schools to filter obscene and harmful-to-minors content. FERPA restricts disclosure of educational records, which courts have read to include search queries when tied to student identifiers. Routing classroom research through Google or Bing creates a per-student profile that the school district cannot purge.

We configure SafeSearch enforced at the result-filter layer, explicit-content engines disabled in the catalog, image proxy on, and the rate limiter sized to a building-scale user base. A typical district workflow: students in grades 5–12 use search.district.k12.us from the classroom; queries never leave the district network unprofiled, and no student-ID-to-query mapping ever reaches a third party. Per-seat licensing on a curated paid search would scale linearly with enrollment — impractical at district scale. One DANIAN instance can serve a school building of several hundred students without per-seat cost.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything teams ask before signing up — answered straight, without sales speak.

Three groups: technical setup, migration, and how DANIAN works as a service.

01

Technical and configuration

SearXNG paginates with pageno=" only" — there's no per-request result-count parameter. Each page returns approximately 20 results, so an agent needing 100 hits paginates four times. We tune the per-IP rate limit so paginated agents don't trip the bot detector mid-loop.
Yes, and the JSON API is enabled by default for that reason. We've tested the Open WebUI integration (point ENABLE_RAG_WEB_SEARCH at the instance), the LangChain SearxSearchWrapper, the LiteLLM searxng connector, and the community mcp-searxng MCP server. The pattern works without code changes from any of them.
We can enable outgoing.using_tor_proxy: true per instance. Latency increases substantially — typically 800ms to 3 seconds per query — so we recommend Tor outbound for individual sensitive queries via an alternate URL, not as the default. The trade-off is real and we talk through it before flipping it on.
Yes. Drop the engine module into searx/engines/, register it in settings.yml, and we'll review it for parsing reliability. The upstream documents the pattern with examples like Tube Archivist. Internal services running on the same network can be added as private engines without exposing them publicly.
Searx was archived in September 2023 and is no longer maintained. Whoogle is a Google-only proxy, not a metasearch. 4get is a smaller fork with a different UI and fewer engines. SearXNG is the de-facto live metasearch project, with the most engines and the active patch cadence to keep them parsing.
No — each instance is independent by design. That's the privacy property: your queries hit one instance, that instance hits the upstream engines, and no other instance ever sees the query. There are no cross-instance accounts and no shared state. Multi-instance setups (one per team) are common; federation is not a feature.

02

Migration and onboarding

We can activate your app on your own custom domain/subdomain. Examples: mydomain.com, anyword.mydomain.com.
Or, on our randomized free subdomain. Example: 963.apps.danian.cloud
If you wish to use a custom domain/subdomain, select that option when ordering your app (or notify us later). We will send you the required DNS records and if needed, our tech team will modify them for you.
21 datacenter locations across six continents. You choose the region at provisioning. Application data sits in the region you choose; pick whichever is closest to your users or matches your data-residency preference.
Yes. Request a region migration from the dashboard and we run the move in the background. The system emails you when the migration completes; total transfer time depends on data volume but typical instances finish in a few hours. There is no extra charge for a region change.
Yes. Full data export is available at any time, in a portable format you can bring to any infrastructure.
SearXNG has no server-side accounts by design, so there's no database to migrate. Export your preferences from the old instance using its preferences-URL feature, then import on the new one. Bookmarks and saved bangs travel with you. The whole move takes about 10 minutes.
Yes, some engines geofence aggressively. Yandex from European IPs is unreliable. Baidu is best from Asia-region instances. We tune the engine list to the region you pick — same instance shape, different default-enabled engines. You can override per-engine from settings.

03

Billing, support, and platform

€9 covers everything we do for that app: hardware in the region you choose, daily off-site backups with one-click restore, automatic security patches and version upgrades, 24/7 monitoring, SSL and firewall, and engineering support on Email/LiveChat. There are no setup fees or hidden line items. For more info see our Pricing page.
If you decide to continue, we charge €9/app/month from day 8. If you don't, the trial ends and you can export your data. No card is required for the trial, and we never auto-charge you without explicit consent.
No. The €9/month is flat regardless of how many users log into your app. Add 5 users or 50; the price doesn't change.
24/7 Live chat and email support, both staffed by engineers who run the systems. We handle DNS configuration, SMTP setup, app integrations, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and migration help. Response time is typically under an hour. There is no tier system — every customer gets the same support.
Yes. Cancel from the dashboard. We don't charge a cancellation fee, we don't lock data, and we will export your data to you on request before deletion. data to you on request before deletion.
Every customer instance is backed up daily to a separate region from the primary. We test restores. You can request a restore at any backup point within the retention window — usually 7 days for daily backups.
Your application data sits in the region you choose at provisioning — 21 datacenter locations across six continents. Account-level data (billing, account email, support ticket history) is processed centrally. Application data region is picked by you, per app.
99.9% uptime SLA on every app, every tenant. Service credits are documented at danian.co/service-level-agreement. The status page is located at status.danian.co.
When your tenant approaches the resource ceiling — the base tier holds 1 vCPU/RAM, 30 GB storage — we notify you. Resource upgrades happen with your explicit consent; we will not upgrade your tenant or charge you without it.
We wait. We don't suspend the app or delete your data on the first failed charge. We email you, you fix the card on file, and we continue.
Invoices can be downloaded from the billing dashboard in PDF the day each charge succeeds. EU VAT is added where applicable and the VAT-reverse-charge regime applies for VAT-registered businesses with a valid number.
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Yes. Every instance comes with a web-based terminal and a file manager in your DANIAN management dashboard. Useful for managing your data and customizations.
Resources scale with your usage. If your app needs more vCPU, RAM, or storage, we add it — and we ask first before any change to your plan. €9 is the floor; resource-heavy workloads may price higher, but you'll always know in advance.
Yes. We have both a Partner program and an Affiliate program available. Anybody can sign up.
No contract. No minimum commitment. Cancel anytime from the dashboard with one click. The 7-day free trial requires no credit card. After the trial converts to paid, you can still cancel at any month without notice or penalty.

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21 datacenter locations on six continents

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United States, Germany, Finland, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, UK, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Malaysia, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, South Korea, Chile, South Africa and more coming soon

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