You.com
You.com now provides web search, content extraction and research APIs for AI agents and LLMs, offering grounded, cited answers from a real-time index.
About this tool
You.com now concentrates on search infrastructure for AI applications. Its APIs let agents and language models search the web, extract clean content from pages and generate grounded answers, with an emphasis on accuracy, freshness and performance. Results now include live data such as stock prices, crypto, weather and prediction markets.
Products range from raw Web Search results for developers who do their own reasoning, to an extraction endpoint that returns pages as Markdown or HTML, a single-call answer endpoint that returns cited responses, and a multi-step research endpoint that plans, searches repeatedly and cross-references before answering, with adjustable effort. Developers can try live search through an MCP server without an API key.
What you can do
Web Search API
Real-time web and news results designed for programmatic use by AI applications.
Content extraction
Turn known URLs into clean Markdown or HTML for downstream processing.
Cited answers
One call converts a question into an answer with its sources.
Deep research
Multi-step research across the web with a tunable effort level.
Who is it for?
- A developer grounds a chatbot’s answers in fresh web results.
- An agent extracts the text of known pages for summarisation.
- A research tool requests in-depth, cited reports on complex questions.
Before you choose
You.com has shifted focus to developer APIs, so consumers looking for a chat search app should check current availability.
Costs scale with API calls and research depth; monitor usage in production.
Frequently asked questions
What does You.com offer now?
You.com offers web search, extraction, answer and research APIs that help AI agents and LLMs work with up-to-date web information.
Can I try You.com without an API key?
Yes. Its MCP server allows up to 100 Web Search queries per day without an API key, account or card.
How is the You.com API priced?
Pricing is usage-based with no minimums or seats; for example, You.com lists Web Search at $5 per 1,000 calls.
Check the official website for current features, pricing, and terms.
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