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Livegrep

Fast regex search across large source code repositories

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Nelson Elhage
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What is Livegrep?

An open-source search tool that indexes source repositories for rapid regex lookups. Once indexed, searches run entirely offline without accessing the original repositories.

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Livegrep pricing

We don't have Livegrep's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.

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Open sourceFree tier

Open source

What Livegrep does

The capabilities that matter for code search, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Capabilities
Search scope
Multi repo org
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
Open source
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Platform & deployment

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Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (1)

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  • GitHub←•

Security & compliance

Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality

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The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Livegrep, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 37 / 100
low · 29%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Capabilities670.085.6✓
Security score440.052.3✓
Stars630.032.1✓
Integrations90.050.5✓
Dependent projects00.080.0✓
Development activity00.120.0✓
Release cadence00.070.0-
Security posture00.090.0-
Package downloads00.170.0-
Developer Q&A activity00.080.0-

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Activity

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d0mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Dependent repos0highsource · 2026-09-18 · 85%
Github stars2,235highsource · 2026-09-18 · 90%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
CapabilitiesCli tool: Yes · Cloud saas: Yes · Open source: Yes · Search scope: multi-repo-org · Pricing model: open_source · Self hostable: Yesmediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count1mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryC++highsource · 2026-09-18 · 90%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%
Modelopen_sourcemediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%
Price levelfreemediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Scorecard4.4highsource · 2026-09-18 · 90%
VulnerabilitiesCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Flivegrep%2Flivegrep&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0highsource · 2026-09-18 · 90%
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