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Hound vs tgrep: catalog facts
Hound	tgrep
Best for: Teams searching code across many internal repositories	Best for: Developers who search very large repositories many times a day
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Windows, Command line
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	Index makes repeated searches over large codebases fast Regular expression search All 4 strengths for tgrep Index makes repeated searches over large codebases fast Regular expression search Runs entirely locally Actively maintained by Microsoft
Must be built or deployed yourself Search only, no code navigation or cross-references	Needs a background server and index, unlike plain grep or ripgrep Benefit is mainly on very large codebases
Self-hosted	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Offline features available	Offline features available
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Hound github.com/hound-search/hound Catalog checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for tgrep github.com/microsoft/tgrep Catalog checked October 2, 2026

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