Alternatives

Searx alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Searx

Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

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#1

Search Plugins

Similarity 147Trust 94Excellent 100

Search plugins for qBittorrent search feature

6.3K starsMay 25, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add qbittorrent/search-plugins
#2

Whoogle Search

Similarity 140Trust 94Excellent 100

A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

12K starsMay 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add benbusby/whoogle-search
#3

Mwmbl

Similarity 136Trust 92Excellent 100

An open source, non-profit web search engine

1.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add mwmbl/mwmbl
#4

AI Paper Collector

Similarity 136Trust 82Strong 71

MLNLP社区用来更好进行论文搜索的工具。Fully-automated scripts for collecting AI-related papers

1.2K starsDec 16, 2023 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add MLNLP-World/AI-Paper-Collector
#5

Searxng

Similarity 134Trust 98Excellent 100

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searxng/searxng
#6

OpenSearch

Similarity 134Trust 95Excellent 100

🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.

13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch
#7

Lucene

Similarity 132Trust 93Excellent 100

Apache Lucene open-source search software

3.5K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/lucene
#8

Knowledge

Similarity 129Trust 81Strong 81

Online library for AI

761 starsJun 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add raphaelsty/knowledge
#9

Darksearch

Similarity 129Trust 74Needs review 49

:mag::shipit: Search engine for hidden material. Scraping dark web onions, irc logs, deep web etc...

537 starsDec 26, 2022 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add vlall/Darksearch
#10

Pisa

Similarity 128Trust 91Excellent 96

PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia

1.1K starsMay 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
$ npx skills add pisa-engine/pisa
#11

Python Seo Analyzer

Similarity 127Trust 91Excellent 98

An SEO tool that analyzes the structure of a site, crawls the site, count words in the body of the site and warns of any technical SEO issues.

1.5K starsJun 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add sethblack/python-seo-analyzer
#12

Elasticsearch

Similarity 127Trust 92Excellent 100

Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine

77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch
#13

Sonic

Similarity 127Trust 96Excellent 100

🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.

21K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add valeriansaliou/sonic
#14

Tantivy

Similarity 127Trust 97Excellent 100

Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust

15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy
#15

Scira

Similarity 126Trust 96Excellent 100

Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet and cites it too. Powered by Vercel AI SDK!

12K starsMar 20, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptSearch
$ npx skills add zaidmukaddam/scira
#16

Lnx

Similarity 126Trust 86Excellent 85

A flexible, performant and reliable search database without the AI bullshit.

1.4K starsOct 14, 2025 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add lnx-search/lnx

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