context tax
pending
security
97/100
cold start
pending
freshness
Slowing5mo ago
Our reading of Searxng, from the data
Searxng is a web search MCP server from secretiveshell.
We haven't measured its tool list yet, so its token cost is unknown.
Maintenance is slowing: the last public signal was 5 months ago (2026-05-29). For comparison, 70% of web search servers are active or maintained.
With 131 GitHub stars it ranks #55 of 738 web search servers we index.
Install Searxng MCP server
No published package or hosted endpoint yet — see the repository README for build-from-source instructions.
Security signals
97/100 — no known issues found as of 2026-10-19, from the checks below. This is not a guarantee of safety; review what a server can do before connecting it.
Deductions
- No security policy (SECURITY.md)-3
Checks
- ✓Repository hygiene (archived, activity, license, security policy)
- ○Package metadata (install scripts, provenance) — pending
- ○Tool descriptions (prompt-injection and hidden-text heuristics) — pending
- ○Source scan (secrets, CVEs, risky code) by vectra-guard — pending
Scan it yourself before installing with vectra-guard, the open-source agent security CLI (made by NavyaAI, which also runs MCPSkillHub). Scoring rules
Freshness
Slowing — last maintenance signal 5mo ago. The newest of the signals below sets the band.
Last commit (default branch)
2026-05-29 · 5mo ago · GitHub
Latest release
no data · GitHub
Package published
no data · npm/PyPI
Registry entry updated
no data · official registry
How it compares in Web Search
Against the most-starred web search servers we index. Token cost is per model turn, measured from each server's live tool list.
| Server | Stars | Tools | Tokens / turn | Freshness | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Searxng (this) | 131 | — | not measured | Slowing | — |
| Fetch | 91,356 | — | not measured | Active | local |
| Search | 39,318 | — | not measured | Active | local + hosted |
| Wigolo | 5,486 | — | not measured | Active | local |
| Exa | 5,138 | 2 | 564 | Active | local + hosted |
| Arxiv | 3,224 | — | not measured | Active | local |
FAQ
›Is Searxng in the official MCP registry?
No. It was indexed from awesome-mcp-servers (punkpeye).
Sources and method
- GitHub repository
- fetched 2026-10-19
- Security signals, computed by us
- 2026-10-19
- Last checked against all sources
- 2026-10-19
The description, packages and links come from the maintainer's own published metadata. Token cost, security signals, freshness and the reading above are MCPSkillHub's own measurements; see the methodology. Editorial standards are owned by Ramachandra Vikas Chamarthi, Founder & AI HPC Architect. Spot an error? Request a correction or claim the listing.
Alternatives to Searxng
Other web search MCP servers.
FetchActiveA Model Context Protocol server providing tools to fetch and convert web content for usage by LLMs
SearchActiveMCP server for web search operations
WigoloActiveLocal web search, fetching, crawling, extraction and research, with multi-engine search, local ML reranking, a SQLite cache and JavaScript rendering.
ExaActiveConnect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.
ArxivActiveSearch arXiv papers, read original LaTeX sections, get BibTeX from arXiv metadata and set topic watches, with papers stored locally.
DevflowincStaleCrawl, embed, chunk, search and retrieve information from datasets through Trieve.