LeIndex vs Shebe
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| Figure | LeIndex | Shebe |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Code Search Tools | 7.5 (#22) | 7.8 (#12) |
| Integrations | The README documents MCP integrations for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Zed, Amp, OpenCode, Qwen CLI, Gemini CLI, iFlow CLI, Droid, and Claude Desktop. | The installation guide documents MCP setup and a Zed editor configuration, and points to the organization for VS Code and other editor extensions. |
| License | The repository lists the project under the MIT license. | The GitHub organization lists the Shebe repository under the Apache-2.0 license. |
| MCP tools | The README lists 20 MCP tools for functions such as search, project mapping, reading, editing, renaming, and impact analysis. | Shebe provides 14 MCP tools for coding agents, including search, repository indexing, file reading, and reference finding. |
| Search | It combines TF-IDF lexical matching, Program Dependence Graph structure, and optional local ONNX neural scoring. | Code search supports ranked results, phrases, Boolean queries, and literal matching. |
| Security | The README says database discovery is opt-in, sensitive directories such as .ssh and .aws are automatically excluded, and SQL operations use parameterized queries. | The README says Shebe runs locally and uses no cloud service; the linked security policy page could not be fetched during this research. |
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In their own words
Shebe
Shebe is a local code-search tool that uses BM25 full-text search across code repositories. It ranks results and supports phrase searches, Boolean queries, and literal matching. Fourteen MCP tools serve coding agents with functions including search, repository indexing, file reading, and reference finding. Shebe runs without embeddings, a GPU, or a cloud service, but repositories must be cloned locally before indexing; remote repository URLs are not supported. Its text-based search does not provide semantic similarity, so related words such as “login” and “authenticate” may not match. Prebuilt binaries are listed for Linux x86_64 and macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel; Linux ARM64 is planned. Windows users need to build it from source. The installation guide covers MCP setup and Zed configuration and points to the organization for VS Code and other editor extensions. Shebe is free and licensed under Apache-2.0. The README reports 2 ms query latency and indexing rates from 1,928 to 11,210 files per second in its listed benchmarks.