Privacy Search Engines 2026 — No-Logs, Censorship-Free_

A Brave Search ●

Independent crawler-backed search. Free tier; API requires email.

fees Free · API from $5/mo

A Marginalia Search ●

Solo-built indie search engine for the non-commercial web. Surfaces forums, wikis, personal sites Google buried.

fees Free · AGPL · Java · self-hostable

A Mojeek ●

UK-based independent crawler. No tracking, no profiling.

fees Free · paid API tier

B Stract ●

Open-source search engine with its own crawler. Customisable ranking, optional Sidekick LLM integration.

fees Free · Rust · self-hostable

B DuckDuckGo ●

Free no-tracking search. Bing-backed index. The mainstream private-search default.

fees Free · ad-supported

B Startpage ●

Google results, no Google tracking. Dutch operator.

fees Free · ad-supported

A Kagi ●

Subscription search — no ads, no tracking, custom ranking. Best privacy-respecting paid option.

fees $5–25/mo · annual plans accept BTC / LTC · email signup

A Mullvad Leta ●

Mullvad subscribers get a Google-fronted private search at no extra cost.

fees Included with Mullvad VPN · 100 queries/day

A SearXNG ●

Privacy-respecting metasearch. Aggregates 70+ engines locally on your server.

fees Free · AGPL · Docker / source

A Whoogle ●

Self-hosted Google proxy. Get Google's results without the tracking, ads, or AMP.

fees Free · MIT · Python / Docker · self-hostable