You.com

Real-time web search, research and answer APIs that ground AI agents in live data

Freemiumyou.comUpdated 4 Nov 2026

About You.com

You.com is a web intelligence company that sells search and inference APIs for AI applications and agents. Its homepage headline is "Search and inference for AI", and the company describes the product as a real-time web data layer for developers and enterprises. The lineup includes an Inference Router, an OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models with multi-provider failover and a 99.9% uptime SLA, plus a Web Search API that returns ranked web and news results, a Contents API that extracts clean Markdown or HTML from URLs, an Answer API that returns a cited answer in one call, and a Research API (plus a finance-tuned variant) that plans multi-step searches and returns cited reports. A hosted MCP server and agent skills let coding agents and other MCP clients call these tools directly.

Best for

Grounding LLM and agent outputs in live web data, RAG pipelines, cited research reports, adding web search to MCP-enabled coding agents
RAG Grounding: Feeding live web results into an LLM pipeline so answers reflect current information instead of training cutoffs.
Agent Web Access: Connecting a coding or research agent to web search and page extraction through the MCP server.
Cited Research Reports: Using the Research API to produce cross-referenced, cited analysis on complex questions.
Financial Analysis: Running Finance Research for earnings summaries, competitive benchmarking and multi-quarter trends.
Content Extraction: Converting known URLs into clean Markdown for knowledge bases.

Not ideal for

Casual consumers wanting a simple free search engine, teams wanting flat-rate pricing instead of per-call billing

Popular with

AI Developers
Engineering Teams
Enterprise Teams
Startups
Knowledge Workers

Screenshots

Key features

Web Search API
Contents API
Answer API
Research API
Finance Research API
Knowledge for Web Search
Hosted MCP Server and Agent Skills
Enterprise Security
Inference Router

Pros and cons

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.

Pricing

Plans as listed by the vendor on 4 Nov 2026. Check their site for current prices.

See you.com

Free

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

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.

8.2overall

Ease of Use: 8.0
Feature Depth: 8.3
Value for Money: 7.8
Performance & Speed: 8.4
Documentation & Support: 8.5

Platforms and integrations

Available on

Web
iOS
Android
API

Works with

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

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Release history

Sep 1, 2024
Announced a $50 million Series B led by Georgian, as the company moved from AI search toward productivity agents
Announced a $50 million Series B led by Georgian, as the company moved from AI search toward productivity agents.

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Frequently asked questions

Is You.com still a consumer search engine?

Not as its main product. The homepage, pricing and about pages describe only APIs for developers and enterprises. A sign-in page at /chat and an iOS app listing still exist, but the website does not describe them or publish consumer plans.

How much does the You.com API cost?

Billing is per call with no minimums, seats or platform fee. Web Search is $5 per 1,000 calls, Contents is $1 per 1,000 pages, and Research ranges from $12 to $1,200 per 1,000 calls depending on the effort level.

Can I try it without an account?

Yes. The MCP server offers a free profile with no API key, account or credit card, limited to 100 Web Search queries per day.

Does You.com store my queries?

Zero Data Retention is available for enterprise customers, which lets queries and data be automatically purged. The company also lists SOC 2 certification and DPA readiness.

Which agents and tools can use the MCP server?

The docs list guides for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Zed, OpenCode and others.

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