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Hound vs Zoekt: catalog facts
Hound	Zoekt
Best for: Teams searching code across many internal repositories	Best for: Teams that want self-hosted search across many code repositories
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Self-hosted, 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	Fast substring and regex search over large codebases Ranking uses symbol information All 3 strengths for Zoekt Fast substring and regex search over large codebases Ranking uses symbol information Web UI and API for searching synced repositories
Must be built or deployed yourself Search only, no code navigation or cross-references	Installed with go install; no packaged releases Works best with Universal ctags installed for symbol ranking
Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: Apache-2.0
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 Zoekt github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt Catalog checked October 2, 2026

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