You.com

You.com is a web search and research API platform for AI applications. Developers use it to retrieve fresh sources, extract page content, or request cited answers for agents and research workflows. Its current product offering focuses on programmatic retrieval rather than a consumer search interface.

Key Highlights

• Web Search API for structured web and news results
• Contents API for extracting Markdown or HTML from known URLs
• Answer API for a cited response from a single search pass
• Research API for questions requiring multiple searches
• Finance research, Python SDK, and MCP integrations

What Makes It Different

The platform separates finding sources from writing an answer. Web Search returns results for your application to interpret; Answer handles a single-pass response; Research searches and reads across multiple steps. This gives developers a choice about how much reasoning to keep in their own workflow.

Features & Capabilities

Use search when the relevant pages are unknown, or pass existing URLs to Contents for page extraction. Research offers effort levels from Lite through Frontier, with different costs and depth. Finance Research is a separate endpoint for company and market questions.

REST and the Python SDK support application integration. The MCP server exposes live tools to compatible agents. Its keyless free profile includes search and discovery, but page extraction, research, and finance require broader access. The Answer API is available through REST rather than MCP.

User Ratings and Testimonials

A vendor-published Factory testimonial describes improved search latency and reliability in its own deployment. Those results are customer-specific rather than a guarantee for every workload. Evaluate source relevance, citation quality, and usage costs on your application's actual questions.

Pricing & Value

• Free MCP profile: 100 Web Search queries per day, without an account or API key.
• Web Search and Answer APIs: $5 per 1,000 calls each.
• Contents API: $1 per 1,000 pages.
• Research Lite: $12 per 1,000 calls; deeper effort tiers cost more.
• Enterprise: Custom pricing, capacity, and support.

Paid usage has no platform fee or minimum commitment. Contents is billed per returned page, so one batch request can contain several billable pages.