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Android Code Search vs Zoekt

Both stand on code search tools. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Choose Zoekt if you need open-source code search across repositories and can run its commands or services yourself. Its search options, web interface, and APIs support different ways to query indexed code. Teams that require authentication in a public-facing deployment should account for the design document's description of HTTPS without authentication.

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The facts

	Android Code Search	Zoekt
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Web	API, Self-hosted, Web
Lowest paid plan	Not published	Free or on request
Plans published	None	1
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	cs.android.com	github.com
On code search tools	#25 of 42	#21 of 42

Android Code Search: what it does well

Zoekt: what it does well

Searches substrings, regular expressions, and Boolean queries
Covers individual repositories or larger codebases
Ranks results with code-related signals, including symbol matches
Offers command-line tools, web UI, JSON API, and gRPC API
Free under the Apache-2.0 license

What to know first

Designed for self-hosted deployment
Design document describes public HTTPS deployment without authentication
Content size per shard is capped at 1G

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