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You.com APIs

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Live web search, cited answers, and deep research APIs for AI applications

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Search and research APIs for AI
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AI application developers
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Hosted APIs, SDK and MCP clients
Called over HTTP from your application; MCP server connects Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and VS Code.
Last checked
29 Oct 2026
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What it does

You.com's API platform includes Search, which returns real-time web and news results formatted for language models, and the same platform offers Contents for extracting Markdown or HTML from known URLs, an Answer API that returns a cited synthesized answer from one query, and Research and Finance Research APIs for multi-step investigation. An Inference Router provides access to open-weight models through one API.

Developers call these endpoints directly or connect agents through an MCP server that works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and VS Code. The free MCP profile needs no API key or account and allows 100 Web Search queries per day. Research endpoints offer five effort levels that trade latency and cost for depth, and the Finance Research API applies the same engine to financial data.

You.com APIs suit developers building retrieval, question-answering and research applications that need live web information. A free MCP profile supports a limited daily Web Search allowance without an account, while other API access uses a key and endpoint-specific billing. Research effort levels trade depth and latency against cost. Teams should preserve citations, check source support for generated answers and estimate their mix of search calls, extracted pages and research runs before scaling.

What it can do

  • Real-time web and news search returning LLM-ready results
  • Extraction of clean Markdown or HTML from supplied URLs
  • Single-call cited answer generation via the Answer API
  • Multi-step agentic research with five effort levels
  • Financial and numerical research via the Finance Research API
  • Access to open-weight models through the Inference Router API

Works with

  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • crewAI
  • Vercel AI SDK
  • n8n
  • Zapier
  • Claude
  • Cursor
  • Pydantic
  • Replit

Example workflows

Grounding an LLM answer with live search
Illustrative example. Input: a user question. Steps: call the Web Search API, pass the returned results to your model, and generate the reply with your own synthesis. Output: a response grounded in current web sources.
Producing a cited research brief
Illustrative example. Input: a research question and an effort level. Steps: send the question to the Research API, which plans, searches repeatedly, reads pages and cross-references them. Output: a synthesized answer with cited sources.

Before you choose

  • Search calls, extracted pages and research effort levels have different billing meters.
  • Preserve citations and validate the sources behind generated research answers.
  • Free MCP search has a daily cap; API keys and endpoint-specific billing apply outside that route.

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Get started

The free MCP profile requires no account or key; production API use requires an API key.

  1. Create an account at you.com and generate an API key from the platform.
  2. For a no-key start, add the MCP server with: claude mcp add --transport http youdotcom "https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free".
  3. Make a first request using the Quickstart guide for your chosen endpoint, such as Search or Research.
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Plans and prices

Prices in USD

Free MCP access allows 100 Web Search queries/day without an account. API signup offers a separate one-time $10 credit. Web Search is $5/1,000 calls and Contents $1/1,000 pages. Research effort tiers are priced per 1,000 calls: Lite $12, Standard $50, Deep $100, Exhaustive $450 and Frontier $1,200. Finance Research and model inference have separate rates. Pay-as-you-go has no platform fee; Enterprise terms are quoted.

FreeFreeFree allowance via MCP only.
  • 100 Web Search API queries per day via MCP
  • No API key, account or credit card
Pay as you go$5 per 1k Web Search callsWeb Search Standard pricing.$1 per 1k pagesContents API pricing.
  • No minimums, seats or platform fee
  • All endpoints, SDKs and MCP
EnterpriseCustomCustom pricing; contact sales.
  • Custom data-retention terms
  • Custom QPS and dedicated capacity

Source: you.com/pricing, checked 29 Oct 2026. Prices can change; check before you buy.

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