You.com
Web search APIs for AI agents and language models
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You.com offers SOC 2 certified search infrastructure built specifically for grounding large language models and autonomous agents in real-time web knowledge. Integration is supported via Python SDK, MCP Server, and REST API endpoints. Usage is billed on a per-call or per-page basis, ranging from standard web search at $5.00 per 1k calls to specialized financial intelligence at $110.00 per 1k calls. Outputs include structured metadata, inline citations, or full page extractions without model training on customer data.
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- Web, API
What You.com costs
As printed on you.com on August 31, 2026
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What changed
All tracked changes →You.com added the Answer API new plan at $5.
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You.com's Free plan limit went from 100 calls per day to 100 queries/day.
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You.com added the Answer API plan at $5.
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You.com added the Free plan at free.
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You.com added the Research API plan at $12.
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- Finding and synthesizing peer-reviewed research papers
- Visualizing scientific agreement on specific research questions
- Connecting AI agents to verified scientific citations via MCP or REST API
What You.com does well
- ✓ Grounding AI agents with real-time web search and news snippets
- ✓ Extracting clean Markdown page content for LLM ingestion
- ✓ Retrieving cited research answers for general and financial workflows
Key features
- Web and news search API with language and country targeting filters
- Full page extraction delivering clean Markdown or raw HTML
- Multi-step research engine providing source-backed answers with citations
- Financial research API covering SEC filings, market data, and macro calculations
People also ask
What output formats does the Contents API support? +
The Contents API extracts web page content and returns it as either clean Markdown or raw HTML.
Does You.com train AI models on API request data? +
No, You.com explicitly policies that no model training is performed on API user data.
How can developers integrate You.com search APIs? +
Developers can integrate the services using a Python SDK, MCP Server, or standard REST API endpoints.
Is You.com free? +
Yes. You.com has a free plan (100 queries/day). Paid plans start at $1 usage-based.
How much does You.com cost? +
You.com lists 9 plans: Free, Contents API at $1 usage-based, Web Search API at $5 usage-based, Answer API at $5 usage-based, Answer API new at $5 usage-based, Research API Lite at $12 usage-based, Research API at $12 usage-based, Finance Research API Deep at $110 usage-based, Finance Research API at $110 usage-based.
What platforms does You.com run on? +
You.com runs on Web, API.
At a glance
- Pricing model
- freemium
- Category
- search
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- Capabilities
- ai-search answer-engine citations developer-api research summarization
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