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What it is

searchcode provides code-intelligence dossiers for public GitHub repositories, covering languages, complexity, technology stacks, code quality, and secrets. Its MCP server exposes six tools for AI assistants, and each tool is also available as JSON over HTTP through the REST API. Analysis reports language breakdowns, complexity metrics, detected technologies, quality findings, and credentials such as API keys, tokens, and private keys with file, line, and confidence details. Search supports full text, boolean logic, regular expressions, and structural filters for declarations, usages, strings, and comments. File retrieval can return complete files, line ranges, or named symbols with nearby declarations; batch retrieval handles up to 10 files. The free beta plan covers public GitHub repositories without signup, an API key, or installation. Enterprise deployment runs on customer infrastructure as a Docker image with a Kubernetes Helm chart. Private repositories can authenticate with SSH keys or HTTPS tokens.

Spec sheet

Purpose
Searchcode provides code intelligence dossiers for public GitHub repositories, including languages, complexity, tech stack and code quality.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
Integrations
Setup instructions are provided for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code/Copilot, Gemini CLI, Amp, OpenCode, Crush, Codex and LM Studio.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
Privacy
The about page says searchcode does not capture or store personally identifiable information and generally uses aggregate data.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
Support
Support is available by email at [email protected].Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
Maker
The about page says searchcode is operated by a single developer and is made in Sydney, Australia by Ben Boyter.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
Batch limit
The code_get_files tool retrieves up to 10 files in one call.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
Code analysis
The code_analyze tool provides language breakdowns, complexity metrics, tech-stack detection, code-quality analysis and secret scanning.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
Code search
The code_search tool supports full-text search, boolean queries, regular expressions and structural filters for declarations, usages, strings and comments.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
File retrieval
The code_get_file tool retrieves full files, line ranges or named symbols with adjacent declarations for context.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
MCP integration
Its MCP server exposes six tools for AI assistants over public repositories.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
Open-source foundation
Searchcode is built on scc for code counting and complexity analysis, supporting more than 300 languages, and cs for code search and smart ranking.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
Private deployment
Enterprise deployment runs on the customer’s infrastructure as a Docker image with a Helm chart for Kubernetes.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
Private repository access
Private Git repositories can use SSH-key and HTTPS-token authentication, with permissions controlled by the customer’s git server.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
REST API
All six tools are available as JSON over HTTP through POST /api/v1/{tool_name}.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
Scale
The maker says searchcode previously indexed more than 75 billion lines of code across millions of repositories and served millions of API requests daily.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com
Secret scanning
The security_summary credential scanner detects API keys, tokens and private keys with file, line and confidence information.Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com

Plans and prices

Free during beta Free public GitHub repositories · no signup · no API key · no install Read 1 Oct 2026 · searchcode.com

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Strong points and limits

Strong points

  • Free beta requires no signup or installation
  • Search supports regex and structural filters
  • Secret scanner reports file and line details
  • Retrieves symbols with surrounding declarations
  • Enterprise Docker and Helm deployment

Limits

  • Free plan covers public GitHub repositories
  • Batch file retrieval is limited to 10 files
  • No IDE extensions listed

Who it suits

It suits developers and AI-assisted workflows that need searchable analysis of public repositories. Enterprise teams can deploy it privately and connect repositories using their own server permissions.

Verdict

searchcode combines repository search, code analysis, secret scanning, and AI-assistant integrations. Its free public-repository access and private enterprise deployment address different repository access needs.

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