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Felo vs You.com

Features, pricing, ratings, and pros and cons, side by side.

Verdict

Felo is listed under Education & Research and You.com under Developer Tools. You.com scores higher in FinderAtlas's editorial review (8.2 vs 7.7 out of 10), led by feature depth and performance & speed. Both have a free plan or trial.

Best overall

You.com

  • AI Developers
  • Engineering Teams
  • Enterprise Teams
  • Startups

Choose Felo if

  • You want a tool built for cited multilingual web research, quickly turning a topic into a slide deck, and users who want search plus generation tools under one subscription.
  • Permanent free plan with 200 credits per day and no credit card required.
  • Combines cited search with slides, images, video and agents in one subscription.

Choose You.com if

  • You want a tool built for grounding LLM and agent outputs in live web data, RAG pipelines, cited research reports, adding web search to MCP-enabled coding agents.
  • Clear per-call pricing with no seat, minimum or platform fee.
  • Keyless free MCP tier (100 queries per day) makes prototyping frictionless.
Best for beginners
Felo
Best for business
You.com

Features

17 features compared.

  • AI Search with Citations
    Felo
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Multilingual Support
    Felo
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • AI Slides
    Felo
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Deep Research
    Felo
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Custom Agents
    Felo
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Image and Video Generation
    Felo
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • LiveDoc
    Felo
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Developer API
    Felo
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Web Search API
    Felo
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Contents API
    Felo
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Answer API
    Felo
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Research API
    Felo
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Finance Research API
    Felo
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Knowledge for Web Search
    Felo
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Hosted MCP Server and Agent Skills
    Felo
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Enterprise Security
    Felo
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Inference Router
    Felo
    Not available
    You.com
    Available

Pricing

Plans as listed by each vendor. Check their sites for current prices.

  • Pricing model
    Felo
    Freemium
    You.com
    Freemium
  • Free plan
    Felo
    Yes
    You.com
    Yes
  • Starting price
    Felo
    $0
    You.com
    $0
  • Plans
    Felo
    2 plans
    You.com
    3 plans

Felo plans

  • Free

    $0

    Everyday AI search at no cost

    • 200 credits per day
    • unlimited high-speed search
    • limited access to advanced models

  • Pro

    Most popular

    $14.99/month

    Full model lineup, workspace tools and API

    • 15,000 credits per billing cycle
    • 200 bonus credits per day
    • AI Slides
    • AI Designer
    • custom agents
    • deep research
    • API access

You.com plans

  • Free

    $0

    Keyless prototyping through the MCP server

    • No API key
    • account or credit card needed
    • 100 Web Search API queries per day via MCP

  • Pay as you go

    Most popular

    $5/1K calls

    Usage-based billing for production; $5 is the Web Search rate per 1,000 calls

    • No minimums
    • seats or platform fee
    • all endpoints
    • SDKs and MCP
    • auto top-up

  • Enterprise

    Custom/custom

    Enterprise teams needing compliance and capacity

    • Zero Data Retention
    • SOC 2
    • DPA-ready
    • custom QPS and dedicated capacity
    • SLA-backed support

Our ratings

Scored out of 10 by the Finder Atlas editorial team. Last reviewed November 2026.

Felo
7.7overall
You.com
8.2overall

Felo leads in 2 categories and You.com in 3.

  • Ease of Use

    Felo leads by 0.2
    Felo
    8.2
    You.com
    8.0

  • Feature Depth

    You.com leads by 0.5
    Felo
    7.8
    You.com
    8.3

  • Value for Money

    Felo leads by 0.1
    Felo
    7.9
    You.com
    7.8

  • Performance & Speed

    You.com leads by 0.8
    Felo
    7.6
    You.com
    8.4

  • Documentation & Support

    You.com leads by 1.5
    Felo
    7.0
    You.com
    8.5

Scores weigh documented features, plan value, platform coverage, integrations and user feedback. A missing score means we have not rated that area yet.

Pros and cons

Felo

Pros

  • Permanent free plan with 200 credits per day and no credit card required.
  • Combines cited search with slides, images, video and agents in one subscription.
  • Pro plan at about $15 per month includes API access.
  • Multilingual focus, including Japanese-language accuracy.
  • Available on web, iOS and Android.

Cons

  • Credit-based usage makes real limits harder to predict than fixed quotas.
  • Free plan excludes AI Slides, AI Designer, custom agents, video and the API.
  • Pro credits do not roll over between billing cycles.
  • Current pricing is rendered dynamically and older published plan descriptions (search counts) differ from the new credit model.

You.com

Pros

  • Clear per-call pricing with no seat, minimum or platform fee.
  • Keyless free MCP tier (100 queries per day) makes prototyping frictionless.
  • Range of endpoints from raw search to cited multi-step research on one index.
  • Documented MCP server, agent skills and plugins for many coding agents.
  • Enterprise options include zero data retention and SOC 2.
  • Published latency figures per endpoint help with capacity planning.

Cons

  • Per-call billing makes costs harder to predict than a flat subscription, and top Research tiers reach $1,200 per 1,000 calls.
  • No consumer plans are published on the website, so anyone looking for the old chat assistant gets no clear pricing.
  • The consumer search and chat experience is no longer promoted, so it is a poor fit for casual users.
  • Free tier is capped at 100 Web Search queries per day.

Platforms

  • Web
    Felo
    Supported
    You.com
    Supported
  • Windows
    Felo
    Not supported
    You.com
    Not supported
  • macOS
    Felo
    Not supported
    You.com
    Not supported
  • iOS
    Felo
    Supported
    You.com
    Supported
  • Android
    Felo
    Supported
    You.com
    Supported
  • API
    Felo
    Supported
    You.com
    Supported
  • Browser Extension
    Felo
    Not supported
    You.com
    Not supported

Integrations

Felo

No integrations listed.

You.com

11 integrations
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Codex CLI
  • GitHub Copilot CLI
  • Windsurf
  • Gemini CLI
  • VS Code
  • JetBrains IDEs
  • Zed
  • OpenCode
  • Jan

Company

  • Company
    Felo
    Felo Inc.
    You.com
    You.com
  • Founded
    Felo
    Not listed
    You.com
    2020
  • Headquarters
    Felo
    Tokyo, Japan
    You.com
    Palo Alto, CA
  • Listing
    Felo
    Claimed
    You.com
    Claimed

Frequently asked questions

Is Felo better than You.com?

It depends on your workflow. Felo is built for cited multilingual web research, quickly turning a topic into a slide deck, and users who want search plus generation tools under one subscription. You.com is built for grounding LLM and agent outputs in live web data, RAG pipelines, cited research reports, adding web search to MCP-enabled coding agents.

What are the key feature differences between Felo and You.com?

Felo: Multilingual AI search engine that also builds slides, mind maps and research reports. You.com: Real-time web search, research and answer APIs that ground AI agents in live data.

Does Felo or You.com have a free plan?

Yes, both do. Felo is freemium and You.com is freemium, and each has a free plan or trial.

Which is cheaper, Felo or You.com?

Both can be used for free. Paid plans differ in limits and features, so compare the tiers in the pricing table above.