You.com
Summary
LLM applications that hallucinate citations or return stale data in production are the failure mode most AI teams discover after launch, not before. You.com's API suite exists to solve that specific gap — grounding your agents and pipelines in real-time, cited web data without you building the crawl infrastructure yourself.
The suite ships four discrete APIs: a Web Search API for real-time results with snippets, a Contents API for pulling full page HTML or text from arbitrary URLs, a Research API that handles multi-step synthesis and tops the DeepSearchQA benchmark, and a Finance Research API that reconciles sources across filings and macro data, scoring 87.29% on FinSearchComp. Each returns structured output with source URLs attached, so attribution is built into the response shape rather than bolted on later. The Python SDK keeps integration to a handful of lines. Where the ceiling appears: there is no self-hosted option, so every call routes through You.com's infrastructure — a non-starter for teams operating in air-gapped or data-residency-constrained environments. Finance Research API calls carry a steep per-call cost, which makes high-frequency queries expensive fast.
Bottom line: Pick this to ground a research or financial intelligence agent in cited, real-time web data without managing crawl infrastructure — but plan a different architecture if your compliance requirements forbid third-party data routing or your query volume makes the Finance Research API pricing untenable.
Pricing Plans
Usage-BasedLast verified 2 days ago- Price
- $5.00 per 1,000 calls (Search API); $1.00 per 1,000 pages (Contents API); $12.00-Custom per 1,000 calls (Research API); $110.00 per 1,000 calls (Finance Research API)
- Free Tier
- $100 free credit to get started
Search API
Ground your agentic apps in reliable, web-scale knowledge with contextual snippets. Includes News Search API.
- News endpoint included at no extra cost
- Up to 100 URLs per call included
- LLM-ready snippets with rich metadata per result
- Country & language targeting filters
Contents API
Fetch full page text, summaries, and metadata for multiple URLs. Streamline content aggregation and analysis across sources.
- Returns clean Markdown or raw HTML per page
- Reliable page extraction at scale
- Accessible via Search API livecrawl parameter
- Python SDK, MCP Server, and REST API access
Research API
Research across the open web and return source-backed answers with citations. #1 in DeepSearchQA.
- Cited, source-backed answers with inline references
- Multi-step search and synthesis pipeline
- AAAI Best Paper Award methodology
Finance Research API
Purpose-built for developers focused on financial workflows who need accurate, current, and deeply sourced financial intelligence.
- Covers filings, macro data, markets, and derived calculations
- Goes beyond web search with structured, multi-source research
- Precision-focused: avoids fiscal year, unit, and period errors
- Cited answers with traceable [[n]] source references
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Four discrete APIs covering search, full-page extraction, multi-step research, and financial intelligence, so you pick the layer that matches your query complexity instead of over-paying for synthesis when a raw result is all you need.
- Every Research and Finance Research API response returns numbered source citations alongside the synthesized answer, which means your application ships with attribution built into the data model rather than requiring a separate verification pass.
- The Research API ranks first on the DeepSearchQA benchmark per vendor claims, so for complex multi-source synthesis queries you get a credible accuracy signal before committing to integration.
- The Finance Research API reconciles across filings, macro data, and multi-step calculations in a single call, so financial research tools avoid the brittle pipeline of stitching together separate data sources and reconciliation logic.
- Usage-based pricing with a free credit allocation on sign-up means early-stage prototypes can validate the API against real queries before any budget commitment — no upfront infrastructure cost.
Cons
Sign in to edit- No self-hosted option exists: every API call routes through You.com's cloud infrastructure. Teams operating under data-residency regulation, HIPAA requirements, or air-gapped deployment mandates cannot use this platform and will evaluate self-hostable alternatives like SearXNG or in-house crawl infrastructure instead.
- The Finance Research API's per-call cost is a significant multiple of the Web Search API rate. Applications that require high-frequency financial queries — real-time portfolio monitoring, continuous filing surveillance — will hit budget ceilings fast and teams typically either throttle query frequency to the point of degrading freshness or switch to a dedicated financial data vendor with subscription-based access.
- The Contents API returns page content as fetched, meaning JavaScript-rendered pages that require a headless browser to display meaningful content will return incomplete or skeletal HTML. Teams scraping modern SPAs add a separate rendering layer, effectively maintaining two extraction systems.
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About
- Platforms
- Cloud-based API (REST, Python SDK, MCP Server)
- API Available
- Yes
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-06-09T16:42:48.623Z
Best For
Who it's for
- AI and ML developers building agentic systems
- Companies needing accurate financial intelligence and research
- Teams requiring large-scale content extraction and analysis
- Enterprise applications demanding source attribution and traceability
- Startups experimenting with low-cost, usage-based search infrastructure
What it does well
- Grounding agentic AI applications in reliable web-scale knowledge
- Building financial research and analysis tools with deep source attribution
- Extracting and aggregating content from multiple web sources at scale
- Powering enterprise search and information synthesis systems
- Creating AI assistants that require cited, verifiable information sources
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is You.com free?
- You.com is a paid tool ($5.00 per 1,000 calls (Search API); $1.00 per 1,000 pages (Contents API); $12.00-Custom per 1,000 calls (Research API); $110.00 per 1,000 calls (Finance Research API)). No permanent free tier is offered.
- Is You.com open source?
- No — You.com is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- Does You.com have an API?
- Yes. You.com exposes a developer API. See the official documentation at https://you.com for details.
- What platforms does You.com support?
- You.com is available on: Cloud-based API (REST, Python SDK, MCP Server).
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Hallucinations and uncited outputs are the tax every LLM application pays when it has no reliable connection to the live web. You.com’s API platform is a set of four purpose-built APIs that give AI applications, agents, and data pipelines a real-time web data layer: the Web Search API returns ranked results with titles, URLs, and snippets; the Contents API fetches full page content from a list of URLs and returns it in HTML or cleaned text formats; the Research API performs multi-step web research and returns a synthesized answer with numbered source citations; and the Finance Research API applies the same cited-synthesis approach to financial filings, macro datasets, and multi-step calculations.
The Research API’s benchmark position — the vendor states it ranks first on DeepSearchQA — is the differentiating claim worth stress-testing for your use case. It handles queries that require pulling from multiple sources and reconciling them, not just returning a list of links, which is the gap most raw search APIs leave open. The Finance Research API goes further, targeting questions that span SEC filings, earnings data, and macroeconomic figures in a single call, returning source-reconciled output the vendor describes as cited financial intelligence with no infrastructure on your side.
This is infrastructure for builders, not an autonomous tool. The APIs slot into your own agent loop, RAG pipeline, or data workflow — the Python SDK described in the docs reduces integration to initializing a client and calling the relevant method. There is no self-hosted deployment option; all requests go through You.com’s cloud. That constraint rules out the platform for teams with strict data-residency requirements or air-gapped environments. For teams where per-call cost is a lever: the Finance Research API carries a meaningfully higher cost per call than the Web Search or Contents APIs, so high-volume financial query patterns require a budget conversation before production commit.