About You
You.com sells web search infrastructure for AI applications. Its APIs return ranked web and news results, extract clean page content as Markdown or HTML, and generate cited answers, so developers can ground a model or an agent in current information instead of relying on training data alone.
The audience is teams building retrieval augmented applications, agents and research tools. The Web Search API provides real time web and news results with highlights, domain filters and a knowledge layer that covers live stock prices, crypto, weather and prediction markets. The Contents API takes URLs the caller already has and parses them. The Answer API returns a written answer with its sources in a single call. The Research API runs multi step research that plans, searches repeatedly, reads full pages and cross references before answering, tuned by one effort parameter across five levels, with a separate finance variant. SDKs and an MCP server are provided, and the enterprise tier adds zero data retention, SOC 2, a data processing agreement, custom query rates, dedicated capacity and support backed by a service level agreement.
Pricing is per call with no minimums, seats or platform fee. A free tier allows 100 Web Search queries a day through the MCP server with no API key or account. Paid rates are $5 per 1,000 Web Search calls, $1 per 1,000 pages for Contents, and $5 per 1,000 Answer calls. Research is priced by effort: Lite at $12, Standard at $50, Deep at $100, Exhaustive at $450 and Frontier at $1,200 per 1,000 calls, with finance research at $110 and $500 per 1,000 calls. Enterprise pricing is custom. New organizations receive $10 in credit, plus $90 more on verifying with a work email or code host account.
The company now presents itself as an API provider first, with the consumer chat product listed as a separate sign in.