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grep.app vs Hound: catalog facts
grep.app	Hound
Best for: Developers looking for real-world usage examples in public code	Best for: Teams searching code across many internal repositories
Free Free to use in the browser; no paid plan is listed.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Web	Web, Self-hosted
Searches code, files and paths across many repositories at once Nothing to install or clone All 3 strengths for grep.app Searches code, files and paths across many repositories at once Nothing to install or clone No account needed	Regular expression search across many repositories Indexes are kept up to date automatically All 4 strengths for Hound Regular expression search across many repositories Indexes are kept up to date automatically Simple JSON configuration Runs from source or Docker
Covers public GitHub repositories only Limited to about a million indexed repositories	Must be built or deployed yourself Search only, no code navigation or cross-references
Web application	Self-hosted
Not open source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Needs internet	Offline features available
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for grep.app grep.app Catalog checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Hound github.com/hound-search/hound Catalog checked October 2, 2026

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