You.com — Developer Tools

What is You.com?

You.com provides a suite of purpose-built web search APIs designed for AI developers and enterprises. Instead of relying on static datasets or outdated search indexes, You.com APIs deliver real-time, source-backed web, content, and financial intelligence to power AI agents, research tools, data pipelines, and LLM-based applications.

Problem Solved

Building AI systems that depend on fresh, accurate web information is challenging—scraping is brittle, latency is high, and results often lack source transparency. You.com solves this by offering a governed, low-latency API layer that returns clean, LLM-ready content with inline citations, filtering, and multi-step synthesis capabilities.

Who is it for?

You.com is ideal for developers building AI agents, chatbot platforms, enterprise knowledge retrieval systems, and financial data tools. It is not suited for casual users looking for a general search engine; it is a developer-first platform requiring API integration.

Real Use Cases

Teams use You.com APIs to ground their LLMs in real-time web results for customer support, competitive research, and compliance monitoring. Financial firms leverage the Finance Research API to automate multi-source filings analysis and macroeconomic data retrieval. Researchers rely on the Research API for synthetic multi-step question answering with traceable sources.

• Web Search API — Real-time web search returning up to 100 results per call with contextual snippets, country/language filters, and LLM-ready metadata.
• Contents API — Fetch full page text, HTML, or Markdown for multiple URLs in a single request; streamlines content aggregation and analysis.
• Research API — Multi-step search and synthesis pipeline generating cited, source-backed answers with inline references (Lite, Standard, Deep, Exhaustive tiers).
• Finance Research API — Specialized for financial workflows: covers filings, macro data, markets, and derived calculations with fiscal year/unit precision.
• News Search Endpoint — Included with Web Search API at no extra cost; delivers real-time news results.
• Zero Data Retention — All queries and data can be automatically purged; full control over data storage duration.

You.com pricing: from $5/1k calls.

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Web Search API — $5.00/1k calls

1–100 results per call, includes News Search endpoint, LLM-ready snippets, country & language targeting, up to 100 URLs per call via livecrawl.

Contents API — $1.00/1k pages

Batch multiple URLs per request, returns clean Markdown or raw HTML, reliable page extraction at scale.

Research API — from $12.00/1k calls (Lite tier)

Fast retrieval for simple factual lookups; additional tiers (Standard, Deep, Exhaustive) for deeper multi-source synthesis. #1 in DeepSearchQA.

Finance Research API — $110.00/1k calls (Deep tier)

Thorough multi-source financial research covering filings, macro data, markets, and derived calculations. Cited answers with [[n]] source references.

All new accounts receive $100 free credit to get started. No model training, SOC 2 certified.

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