| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Code Search Tools | 8.1 (#7) | 7.0 (#27) |
| Distribution | The project distributes a source package; binary packages are provided by outside projects. | The releases page says binaries are available for Darwin and Linux on amd64 and arm64. |
| License | GNU GLOBAL is free software that may be copied, modified, and redistributed under the GNU GPL. | The maker lists idx under the BSD 3-Clause License. |