Host SearXNG without installing anything
A metasearch engine with no index of its own: it asks the other engines for you and returns the results without keeping anything about you.
Starting at €4.99/month
Introduction
SearXNG installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. You install nothing and configure no server: the application is online a few minutes after you order, under your own name.
The plan that suits it is App Essentiel at €4.99/month incl. VAT — 2 GB of memory. SearXNG is a Python application served by several worker processes, each holding the configuration of more than two hundred engines in memory. A single search opens as many outgoing connections as there are sources queried, then merges and re-ranks the answers before the page is drawn: that concurrent work, plus the cache that limits abuse, is why 768 MB is the floor and why headroom above it matters.
SearXNG has no index of its own: it puts your question to Google, Bing, Brave, Qwant, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap or software repositories, depending on what you enable, and returns everything on one page. The instance can be added as your browser default through OpenSearch, and shortcuts such as !images or !wp send a query straight to one source. There is no account, no stored history and no advertising: your settings live in a local cookie or in a preferences string you carry from one device to another.
What managed hosting changes
Dozens of sources, no database of its own
On each search, SearXNG queries the engines you have enabled — general, encyclopaedias, maps, science, software repositories — then merges and re-ranks the answers. Nothing is stored on its side, so nothing grows stale.
No profile, no history, no adverts
No account to create, no session identifier attached to your queries, no sponsored results. Preferences stay local or travel in a settings string you move yourself.
Browser default search engine, and shortcuts
The instance is added in one click as the search engine of Firefox, Chrome or Safari through OpenSearch. Shortcuts like !images, !wp or !map send the query straight to the source you want.
Answers as JSON, CSV or RSS
When those formats are enabled in the configuration, the same engine feeds a script or a feed reader — with no API key and no per-query billing.
Why hand it over rather than install it
A household stepping out of ad profiling
Searches no longer feed a profile: no account, no stored history, no ad network to sell it to.
A librarian comparing sources
One query shows side by side what several engines return. It quickly becomes clear what one shows and the other ignores.
A purchasing or legal department
The terms people type say a great deal about live files. Queries do go out to the engines, but from your instance, with no account or cookie tying them to a person.
A school or a public library
A single search engine on the open-access machines, with safe search on, the chosen sources, and not one advertising banner on the page.
A developer automating a watch list
The JSON output lets a script collect results without subscribing to a commercial API or counting requests.
Hosted in France
In our own infrastructure in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which we operate ourselves. Your queries do not pass through a third party, and the person on the phone speaks your language.
Frequently asked questions
Because public instances concentrate thousands of users behind a single IP address. The engines being queried end up rate-limiting it, and results turn partial or vanish. An instance used by a handful of people is very rarely blocked, and you decide yourself which engines it queries.
Let us be precise: the query does go out to the engines consulted, otherwise there would be no result. What changes is that it leaves from your server, with no account, no cookie and no stored history. The engine sees a question go past, not a profile built up over years.
Its results disappear from the page for a while and the other sources still answer. That is normal metasearch behaviour: you turn engines on and off in the preferences depending on what serves you best.
Nothing. You choose the application, fill in the fields it asks for — often an email address and a name — and it goes online. Access arrives by email with the address and the credentials.
Yes, and here they count double: the engines being queried regularly change the structure of their pages, and it is the new releases of SearXNG that put the connectors back on their feet. A frozen instance quietly empties of results within months.