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Private search, ranked by value — not ad spend

Search engines whose incentive is you: one self-hosted metasearch, one paid index where you're the customer instead of the product.

No paid placement. Ranked by evidence against four principles: transparency, value density, privacy, efficiency. How we rank →
Our pick
Kagi Search — Paid, ad-free search that works for you 4.8
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1 Kagi Search
Paid, ad-free search that works for you
 4.8 SaaS ✓
2 SearXNG
Private metasearch aggregating 70+ engines
 4.5 self-host ~

Max ~7 listings per category, by design — curation is the product. Think something belongs here? Submit it; it has to displace an incumbent.