You.com

You.com is ranked #15 of 28 in AI research assistants on The Geeks Club. It runs on Android, API, iOS, Web. There is a free plan.

You.com plans and pricing

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Free Free 100 queries/day · Web and news results · $100 free credit you.com · 4 Oct 2026

Contents API $1 once $1.00 /1k pages Batch multiple URLs per request · $100 free credit you.com · 4 Oct 2026

Web Search API $5 once $5.00 /1k calls 1–100 results per call · $100 free credit you.com · 4 Oct 2026

Answer API $5 once $5.00 /1k calls Synthesized citation-grounded answers · $100 free credit you.com · 4 Oct 2026

Research API $12 once $12.00 /1k calls Lite, Standard, Deep, Exhaustive, and Frontier tiers · $100 free credit you.com · 4 Oct 2026

Finance Research API $110 once $110.00 /1k calls Deep and Exhaustive tiers · $100 free credit you.com · 4 Oct 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Paid from: $15/user/mo
File uploads: Yes
Team workspace: Yes

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You.com

Product focus: You.com describes its current offering as web search APIs that help developers search the web, extract content, and generate grounded answers for agents and LLMs.
Intended users: The Web Search API is designed for developers building RAG systems, AI agents, knowledge bases, and data-driven applications.
Web search: The Web Search API returns structured results from web and news sources, with metadata, snippets, and optional full-page content.
Contents extraction: The Contents API extracts clean HTML or Markdown from supplied webpage URLs for LLM consumption.
Grounded answers: The Answer API synthesizes natural-language answers from retrieved web results and returns inline citations and the source results.
Research: The Research API uses multi-step web research and synthesis to return citation-backed answers, with selectable research effort levels.
Finance research: The Finance Research API provides grounded, citation-backed answers to financial questions and covers filings, macro data, markets, and derived calculations.
Free access limit: The free Web Search tier includes 100 queries per day, and the pricing page advertises $100 in free credits.
Data retention: You.com says queries and data can be automatically purged through its Zero Data Retention option.
Security: You.com says its infrastructure is SOC 2 certified and independently audited for security, privacy, and availability.
Enterprise controls: The pricing page says You.com is DPA-ready and offers custom QPS limits for high-volume usage on request.
Usage pricing: API pricing is pay-as-you-go with no minimums, and the company says volume discounts and annual usage discounts are available.
Output limitation: You.com’s Master Services Agreement warns that generated output can be inaccurate or incomplete and should be independently reviewed.
Founded: 2020
Price from: Free

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