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Swirl

AI-powered metasearch across multiple data sources

Search Engines ★ 3k stars Medium setup Apache-2.0

Swirl is an open-source AI search platform that simultaneously queries many search engines, databases and enterprise sources, then unifies and reranks the results. It is self-hosted with Docker.

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Key features

  • Federated metasearch
  • AI reranking
  • Many connectors
  • Self-hostable

Strengths

  • Released under the Apache-2.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (3k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Python

Is Swirl secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Swirl'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.

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