What is You.com?
You.com provides search and inference infrastructure for developers and enterprises building AI applications. Its APIs can retrieve current web results, extract content from known URLs, generate cited answers, conduct multi-step research, and analyze financial topics. Developers can also access several open-weight AI models through an OpenAI-compatible Inference Router.
The platform is designed for use cases such as retrieval-augmented generation, autonomous agents, research systems, and production AI workloads that need current information. API documentation, SDK access, an MCP server, usage controls, and enterprise options are available through its web platform.
Key Features
- Real-time web search: The Web Search API returns ranked web and news results for applications that perform their own reasoning or synthesis.
- Content extraction: The Contents API converts supplied URLs into clean Markdown or HTML, making page content easier to use in AI pipelines.
- Cited answers and research: The Answer API produces answers with sources, while Research APIs plan searches, read pages, compare sources, and return more detailed findings.
- Model inference routing: An OpenAI-compatible API provides access to multiple open-weight models and can reroute requests across infrastructure providers when needed.
- Production and security controls: Available capabilities include spend caps, API usage visibility, zero data retention options, custom request limits, dedicated capacity, and SLA-backed enterprise support.
- Developer access options: You.com supports direct API endpoints, SDKs, an MCP server, agent skills, documentation, and interactive testing from the website.
Use Cases
- Add current web and news information to AI agents or retrieval-augmented generation systems.
- Extract readable Markdown or HTML from a predefined collection of URLs.
- Generate cited answers or research reports from open-web sources.
- Analyze companies, markets, earnings, and competitive information with the Finance Research API.
- Run supported AI models through one production API instead of managing separate providers.
Pricing
You.com uses a freemium, usage-based model. Its free MCP option includes up to 100 Web Search API queries per day without an account or API key. Standard Web Search and Answer API access each cost $5 per 1,000 calls, while the Contents API costs $1 per 1,000 pages. Research API rates vary by research depth, and Inference Router pricing varies by model. Enterprise plans use custom pricing and can include higher limits, dedicated capacity, security options, and SLA-backed support.
Who Is It For?
You.com is intended for software developers, AI product teams, research platforms, and enterprises that need fresh web data, structured page content, cited research, financial analysis, or managed model inference in their applications.
