What is You.com
You.com provides web search, content extraction, research, and finance-research APIs designed to ground AI applications in current web information. Its current public commercial offer is developer-focused rather than a simple consumer assistant subscription.
Core offerings
- Web Search API with contextual snippets, news results, metadata, and country or language targeting.
- Contents API for extracting clean page text, summaries, and metadata.
- Research APIs that return source-backed answers with inline citations.
- Enterprise controls including zero-data-retention options, custom QPS limits, and volume commitments.
Pricing
As of July 20, 2026, You.com lists its Web Search API at US$5 per 1,000 calls, with 1–100 results per call and the News endpoint included. The Contents API is US$1 per 1,000 pages and supports batched extraction plus clean Markdown or raw HTML output.
The general Research API starts at US$12 per 1,000 calls and includes cited answers plus multi-step search and synthesis. Finance Research API pricing starts at US$110 per 1,000 calls for its Deep and Exhaustive research modes. You.com also advertises US$100 in starting credit, pay-as-you-go billing with no minimum, volume discounts, and annual-commitment savings; it does not publish fixed enterprise contract prices.
Product footprint
You.com is now best evaluated as web-grounding infrastructure for agents and AI products. Buyers should compare the four API surfaces by call volume, depth of synthesis, extraction needs, and whether enterprise retention and throughput controls are required.
Why select You.com
You.com is worth shortlisting when an application needs current search results, extracted web content, or cited research without building and maintaining a full retrieval stack internally.
Official source: You.com API pricing.