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Zoekt vs tgrep: catalog facts
Zoekt	tgrep
Best for: Teams that want self-hosted search across many code repositories	Best for: Developers who search very large repositories many times a day
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Self-hosted, Command line	Windows, Command line
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	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
Installed with go install; no packaged releases Works best with Universal ctags installed for symbol ranking	Needs a background server and index, unlike plain grep or ripgrep Benefit is mainly on very large codebases
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Offline features available	Offline features available
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Zoekt github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt 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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