You.com

You.com combines an AI assistant experience with a developer platform for real-time web intelligence. The current public API offering provides Web Search, Contents, Answer, Research, and Finance Research APIs, while its MCP server and agent skills connect those capabilities to AI agents and developer tools. The service is best understood as a source-backed search and research layer for people and applications, not simply a generic chatbot.

✨ Key Features

• Web Search API — Retrieve real-time web and news results with LLM-ready snippets, rich metadata, and up to 100 results per call.
• Search targeting controls — Filter web retrieval by country, language, and freshness to fit a research or agent workflow.
• Contents API — Fetch clean Markdown or raw HTML, summaries, and metadata from URLs, including batch extraction and live crawling.
• Answer API — Turn retrieved passages into a synthesized, citation-grounded answer from a single API call.
• Research API — Run multi-step web research and synthesis with cited, source-backed answers across Lite, Standard, Deep, Exhaustive, and Frontier effort tiers.
• Finance Research API — Query a finance-oriented index covering filings, markets, macro data, and financial news for cited financial research.
• MCP and agent connections — Give an AI agent access to search, contents, answers, research, and finance tools through the hosted MCP server or documented agent skills.
• SDK and REST access — Integrate the APIs into applications through REST and available SDKs, with developer documentation and a quickstart flow.
• Usage-based billing — Pay for API calls or pages processed, with credits and usage tracking rather than a fixed per-seat API license.
• Enterprise data controls — Use zero-data-retention options, SOC 2 certification, DPA readiness, and custom QPS limits where eligible.
• Citation-oriented output — Keep inline references and retrieved-source context available for review and downstream answer generation.
• Human research workflow — Use the consumer interface to ask questions, explore sources, and move from search into a research or writing task where available.

💳 Pricing

• Web Search API — $5 per 1,000 calls — Includes web and news results, up to 100 results per call, and targeting filters; new accounts receive $100 in free API credits.
• Contents API — $1 per 1,000 pages — Extract clean page content, summaries, and metadata from URLs.
• Answer API — $5 per 1,000 calls — Returns a synthesized answer grounded in retrieved passages and citations.
• Research API — from $12 per 1,000 calls — Lite starts at $12; higher effort tiers cost more, with current documentation listing Standard $50, Deep $100, Exhaustive $450, and Frontier $1,200 per 1,000 calls.
• Finance Research API — from $110 per 1,000 calls — Deep is listed at $110 and Exhaustive at $500 per 1,000 calls.
• Enterprise — Volume discounts, custom QPS, zero data retention, DPA support, and other controls are available through sales.

Pricing note — API prices are usage-based and may change. Confirm the current credit policy, endpoint limits, latency tier, retention setting, and enterprise contract before using it for production or sensitive data.

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🎯 Use Cases

• Research assistants — Build source-backed answers from multi-step web searches with citations.
• Agent grounding — Give coding, support, or knowledge agents fresh web and news context.
• Content extraction — Convert selected URLs into clean Markdown or HTML for indexing and analysis.
• Competitive intelligence — Track public company, product, or market information across current sources.
• Financial research — Combine filings, market data, macro information, and financial news in a cited workflow.
• RAG ingestion — Retrieve and normalize web pages before adding approved material to a knowledge system.
• Enterprise web intelligence — Apply retention, compliance, concurrency, and volume controls to production integrations.