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Every API call to a commercial Search API adds to your bill. SearXNG solves both problems at once: a self-hosted metasearch engine that queries 280+ upstream engines and returns merged results — on your VPS, under your control, at zero per-query cost.",[34,38,47,50,73,77],{"type":35,"title":36,"body":37},"h2","The problem: why commercial search APIs are not the answer","Building an AI agent that needs to search the web? Your options are: pay Google $5 per 1,000 queries, hit Bing's API rate limits, or use DuckDuckGo's unofficial API that breaks without notice. None of these give you full control, and all of them send your queries — and your users' queries — to third-party servers.\n\nFor development teams in Morocco and the MENA region, there's an additional friction: regional blocks, censorship, and the fact that results from a US-centric engine are often irrelevant to local searches. A self-hosted metasearch engine sidesteps all of this.",{"type":39,"title":40,"items":41},"ul","What SearXNG provides out of the box",[42,43,44,45,46],"**280+ upstream engines** — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Wikipedia, Reddit, GitHub, arXiv, YouTube, Twitter\u002FX and hundreds more queried simultaneously.","**Zero tracking** — no cookies, no user profiling, no search history stored. Privacy by architecture: the engine sends queries to upstream services, not you.","**JSON API** — add `?format=json` to any query and get machine-readable results. Natively supported by Open WebUI, n8n, Flowise, LangChain and CrewAI.","**Redis caching** — shared result cache reduces upstream load; rate-limiting prevents abuse on public instances.","**AGPL-3.0** — 33 k+ GitHub stars, rolling releases, Docker image updated weekly.",{"type":35,"title":48,"body":49},"Architecture: two containers, under 512 MB RAM","SearXNG runs as two Docker containers: the Python engine itself (under 256 MB RAM) and a Redis instance (~30 MB) for caching and rate-limiting. No database, no persistent state beyond the Redis cache. On a 1 GB ServOrbit VPS, SearXNG leaves plenty of room for Nginx and the OS — a 2 GB VPS is comfortable for teams with multiple concurrent users or heavy AI agent traffic.",{"type":51,"title":52,"items":53,"steps":69},"steps","Self-hosting SearXNG on a VPS: step by step",[54,57,60,63,66],{"title":55,"body":56},"Order a VPS","Choose a ServOrbit Cloud VPS with at least 1 GB RAM (Ubuntu 22.04). The provisioner handles Docker installation automatically.",{"title":58,"body":59},"Deploy from the marketplace","Select SearXNG in the marketplace. The provisioner starts two containers — the SearXNG engine and Redis — and generates a secret key displayed in your client area. The web interface is available immediately on port 8080.",{"title":61,"body":62},"Configure Nginx + SSL","Point your domain (e.g. `search.yourdomain.com`) to the VPS IP in Cloudflare or your DNS provider. Then add an Nginx reverse-proxy block with SSL via Let's Encrypt: a `server` listening on `listen 443 ssl`, a `server_name search.yourdomain.com`, and inside `location \u002F` a `proxy_pass http:\u002F\u002F127.0.0.1:8080;` together with `proxy_set_header Host $host;`.\n\nUpdate `SEARXNG_BASE_URL=https:\u002F\u002Fsearch.yourdomain.com\u002F` and restart the container.",{"title":64,"body":65},"Enable the JSON API for AI agents","Edit `\u002Fetc\u002Fsearxng\u002Fsettings.yml` on your VPS (mounted as a Docker volume). Under the `search:` key, extend the `formats:` list so it contains both `html` and `json`.\n\nRestart the container with `docker compose restart searxng`, then test the JSON output with `curl 'https:\u002F\u002Fsearch.yourdomain.com\u002Fsearch?q=SearXNG&format=json' | jq '.results[0]'`.",{"title":67,"body":68},"Connect Open WebUI or n8n","In Open WebUI: Settings → Web Search → Provider: SearXNG → URL: `https:\u002F\u002Fsearch.yourdomain.com`. In n8n: HTTP Request node → GET `https:\u002F\u002Fsearch.yourdomain.com\u002Fsearch?format=json`, passing your query in the `q` parameter. Your AI agents now have live, unfiltered, private web search.",[70],{"title":71,"body":72},"Logging in for the first time","There is no account and no password: open the URL and you can start searching straight away. Your preferences are stored in your browser, not in an account.",{"type":74,"title":75,"body":76},"tip","Restrict access on public instances","If your SearXNG instance is publicly reachable, add HTTP Basic Auth in Nginx or set `limiter: true` in `settings.yml` (Redis is required for the limiter). For AI-agent-only use, you can disable the HTML interface entirely and only expose the JSON endpoint — edit `formats` to remove `html` and restrict direct browser access.",{"type":35,"title":78,"body":79},"SearXNG as the search backbone for your AI stack","SearXNG has become the de facto web search backend for self-hosted AI stacks in 2026. Open WebUI, n8n, Flowise, LangChain, CrewAI and most LLM orchestration frameworks have native SearXNG integration. 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