You.com
Changed focus: enterprise search/research API; consumer plans no longer publicly priced
AI search and research assistant that has shifted to selling search, research and answer APIs to enterprises.
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What it does
You.com provides web search and research APIs designed for AI applications, agents, and LLMs. Developers provide queries or web addresses, and the platform returns ranked web results, extracted page contents, cited answers, or multi step research reports. It is built for developers and enterprises wanting real time web data layers with zero data retention and compliance options.
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Web search API
Delivers real time web and news search results programmatically with domain filters and knowledge parameters for AI models to synthesize.
Use caseAn engineer sends queries to retrieve fresh web snippets and URLs to feed a retrieval augmented generation pipeline.
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Contents API
Accepts specific URLs and parses the target web pages into clean Markdown or HTML without performing a web search.
Use caseA developer provides a list of specific web addresses to collect parsed article text for downstream processing.
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Research API
Executes multi step investigations across the open web by planning searches, analyzing full pages, and cross checking facts across configurable effort levels.
Use caseAn analyst automates multi source verification and report generation for complex open web questions.
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Finance research API
Applies the research engine specifically to financial inquiries to retrieve grounded company metrics, market trends, and regulatory filings.
Use caseAn investment specialist evaluates multi quarter company trends or cross market comparisons using full corporate reports.
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Written from You.com's own website, checked . Each feature links to the page it comes from; images are You.com's own.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Per | What it includes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Not listed | per account | Consumer chat with limits; API 100 searches/day via MCP |
| Pro (consumer, in app only) | Not listed | Not listed | per account | No public price since Jun 2026; was $20/mo or $15/mo annual |
| Max (consumer, in app only) | Not listed | Not listed | per account | No public price since Jun 2026; was $200/mo or $175/mo annual, unlimited ARI research |
| API Pay as you go | Not listed | Not listed | usage | Search $5/1K calls, Contents $1/1K pages, Research $12–$1,200/1K; $100 free credit |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Not listed | custom | contact sales |
From You.com's own pricing page, checked . Prices are in US dollars per month; "billed yearly" is the monthly price when you pay for a year up front. Some of these figures came from third party reports and could not be confirmed on the official page.
Before you pay
- Card needed for the trial
- No
- Data retention
- All queries and data can be automatically purged under Zero Data Retention settings.
What You.com says
All queries and data can be automatically purged — giving you complete control over what's stored and for how long.
Source page
Only what You.com's own pages state, with the quote behind each answer. Anything they don't publish is left out rather than guessed.
Getting started with You.com
- Sign in or create an account to get your API key from the platform.
- Export your API key to an environment variable named YDC_API_KEY.
- Send an HTTP request to the designated API endpoint with the X API Key header.
Written from You.com's own help pages: you.com/docs/quickstart
What the free plan includes
API: 100 Web Search queries/
Questions people ask about You.com
Is You.com free?
Yes, there is a free plan: API: 100 Web Search queries/day via MCP without an account; consumer free tier limits unpublished.
Do I need a credit card to try You.com?
No, you can start without a credit card. Source
Does You.com have an API?
Yes.
What counts as a billable call?
One request to an endpoint is one billable call, whatever it returns. A Web Search call returning 1 result and one returning 100 cost the same. Contents is billed per page returned. Source
Works with
- Integrations
- MCP, Python SDK, Postman
Where this came from
Plans, prices and limits were copied from You.com's own pages and the other sources listed, then checked .
- you.com/pricing
- usagepricing.com/blueprint/you-com
- aiindigo.com/blog/you-com-review-2026-from-ai-search-to-enterprise-...
- you.com/
- you.com/docs/quickstart
- you.com/docs/guides/search
- you.com/docs/guides/contents
- you.com/docs/guides/answer
- you.com/docs/guides/research
- you.com/docs/guides/finance-research
- you.com/signin?redirectUrl=%2Fplatform
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