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Hound

Lightning-fast code search across many Git repositories

Search Engines ★ 5.9k stars Easy setup MIT

Hound is a lightning-fast code search tool that indexes many Git repositories and serves regex-based search through a simple web UI. It is self-hosted as a single Go binary or container.

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Key features

  • Fast regex code search
  • Indexes many repos
  • Simple web UI
  • Single binary

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Mature project with 5.9k GitHub stars

Is Hound secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Hound's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Hound replaces

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SelfHostIndex: 71 · good

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