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Penny Search vs Obsidian Hybrid Search
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Low-cost live web search for current facts, news, research, docs, and web grounding via x402.
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Search Obsidian vaults with hybrid full-text, fuzzy, semantic, and graph retrieval.
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Neither has been reviewed yet, so the comparison rests on the scan and the public usage numbers. The safety scan favours Penny Search (67/100 against 57). Penny Search is hosted and callable through the gateway; Obsidian Hybrid Search runs on your own machine. Obsidian Hybrid Search has noticeably more public adoption.
| Penny Search | Obsidian Hybrid Search | |
|---|---|---|
| User rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Safety grade | C67/100 | C57/100 |
| Adoption | New | Established |
| GitHub stars | – | 104 |
| Downloads / week | – | 718 |
| Runs where | Hosted (remote) | Your machine (local) |
| Gateway-ready | Yes | No |
| Tools | 1 | — |
| Write actions | — | — |
| Price per call | Free | Free |
| Licence | — | MIT |
| Last release | — | 2026-09-17 |
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |