You.com
by You.com
Real-time web search and research APIs for AI agents and LLM applications
PricingFreemium
Starts at$5 / 1k calls (Web Search API, pay as you go)
Free tierYes
Platformsapi
Models used—
Best for
Developers building AI agents or chat apps that need live web search, page content extraction or automated research reports.
Overview
You.com now presents itself as a web data layer for AI: a set of APIs for real-time web search, page contents, answers and multi-step research, plus an MCP server. Pricing is pay-as-you-go, starting at $5 per 1,000 Web Search API calls, with a free daily allowance via MCP.
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Strengths and limits
- Several endpoints: Web Search, Contents, Answer, Research and Finance Research APIs
- Research API has effort tiers from Lite to Frontier for speed versus depth
- Pay-as-you-go with no minimums, seats or platform fee; MCP server and SDKs included
- Enterprise options with zero data retention, SOC 2 and custom QPS
- Now focused on developers and enterprises; the official site no longer markets a consumer chat plan
- Deeper research tiers are expensive (up to $1,200 / 1k calls for Research Frontier)
- The pricing page does not name the underlying language models
What the free plan includes
100 Web Search API queries per day via MCP with no API key, account or credit card; the pricing page also advertises $100 free credit (20,000 searches).