# searchcode vs Zoekt

| Attribute | searchcode | Zoekt |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 54.4 (32% (low)) | 58.7 (14% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 27 | 37 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 12 | 50 |
| adoption.github_stars | 8,662 | 1,844 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A system that analyzes GitHub repositories to extract complexity metrics, language composition, and technology stack information. Designed for integration with AI editors via MCP protocol to enable code understanding without cloning repositories. | An open-source full-text search tool designed for source code, supporting fast substring and regular expression matching with boolean operators, code-aware ranking, and the ability to search across individual repositories or large codebases. |
| integrations.count | 21 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Claude Code"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"VS Code"},{"name":"Copilot"},{"name":"Claude Desktop"},{"name":"OpenCode"},{"name":"Crush"},{"name":"Codex"},{"name":"Gemini CLI"},{"name":"Amp"},{"name":"LM Studio"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"GPT"},{"name":"Gemini"},{"name":"Grok"},{"name":"Kimi"},{"name":"DeepSeek"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Qwen"},{"name":"Llama"},{"name":"GitHub"}]` | - |
| language.primary | Go | Go |
| license.spdx | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"free","summary":"Free during beta. No signup or API key required.","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://searchcode.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T12:52:51.636Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T12:52:02.252Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | 89 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v4.0.0","date":"2026-08-24T01:49:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v3.7.0","date":"2026-03-04T22:34:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v3.6.0","date":"2025-10-31T05:35:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v3.5.0","date":"2025-02-17T01:54:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v3.4.0","date":"2024-09-29T23:06:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v3.3.5","date":"2024-07-02T23:02:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.3.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v3.3.4","date":"2024-05-16T23:23:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.3.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v3.3.3","date":"2024-05-06T00:33:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.3.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v3.3.2","date":"2024-05-02T10:55:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.3.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v3.3.0","date":"2024-05-02T05:46:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v3.2.0","date":"2023-11-27T05:40:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v3.1.0","date":"2022-09-20T05:11:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v3.0.0","date":"2021-02-23T07:04:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v2.13.0","date":"2020-09-07T02:21:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.13.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v2.12.0","date":"2020-03-03T05:41:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v2.11.0","date":"2020-01-19T22:29:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.11.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v2.10.1","date":"2019-11-12T22:10:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.10.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v2.10.0","date":"2019-10-21T21:39:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v2.9.1","date":"2019-10-15T22:30:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.9.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/boyter/scc/releases/tag/v2.9.0","date":"2019-10-14T22:20:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.9.0"}]` | - |
| security.scorecard | 4.8 | 7.1 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fboyter%2Fscc&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fsourcegraph%2Fzoekt&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Code Search)

| Capability | searchcode | Zoekt |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Search scope | - | - |
| Index architecture | - | - |
| Code intelligence | - | - |
| Semantic AI search | - | - |
| Self hostable | - | - |
| Cloud saas | - | - |
| Editor ide integration | - | - |
| CLI tool | - | - |
| Monorepo scale proven | - | - |
| Public code index | - | - |
| Open source | - | - |
| Pricing model | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:08:02.681Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*