You.com
6.5/10You.com sells usage-priced web search, content, answer and research APIs, plus an inference router, so developers and enterprises can ground AI applications in live web data.
Data last updated November 2026 · Our methodology
Overview
You.com started in 2020 as a consumer AI search engine. It has since become a developer and enterprise platform that supplies real-time web data to AI applications. The current lineup covers Web Search, Contents (page extraction), Answer, Research, and Finance Research APIs. There is also an Inference Router that serves open-weight models such as Kimi, DeepSeek and GLM through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with built-in web search. Developers can connect through SDKs, an MCP server and agent skills. Reported customers include DuckDuckGo, Windsurf and Harvey. Pricing is metered. A free MCP tier allows 100 web searches a day without an account. Pay as you go has no seats, minimums or platform fee: Web Search and Answer cost $5 per 1,000 calls, Contents costs $1 per 1,000 pages, and Research runs from $12 per 1,000 calls (Lite) to $1,200 (Frontier). Enterprise contracts are custom and add zero data retention, DPA terms, custom query rates, dedicated capacity and SLA-backed support. The company says it holds SOC 2 certification and complies with CCPA. The platform fits AI startups, product teams building agents, and enterprises that need grounded, citable answers. The main limitation is that You.com no longer markets a polished end-user assistant. Non-technical teams looking for a ready-made chat workspace will find the developer focus a poor match, and third-party sites disagree on what the consumer plans now include.
Our Rating
Who You.com is best for
Good fit
It offers search, content and research APIs, SDKs, an MCP server and an OpenAI-compatible inference router.
Pay-as-you-go pricing with no minimums or seats, a free tier and SDKs suit AI startups building agents.
Enterprise plans add zero data retention, SOC 2, DPA terms, custom QPS and dedicated capacity.
Software companies can ground AI features in live web data, and named customers include Windsurf and DuckDuckGo.
Less suited
Usage pricing scales well, but using it requires in-house engineering.
The vendor names product teams building agents as a target.
It offers a Finance Research API.
- Legal5/10
Harvey, a legal AI company, is a reported customer.
Pay-as-you-go pricing with no minimums suits independent developers, but the product requires technical skill.
The product is now API-first, with no packaged workspace for non-technical marketers.
There is no packaged assistant for non-technical teams.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Transparent per-call pricing, with Web Search at $5 per 1,000 calls and no seat or platform fees
- Free MCP tier gives 100 searches a day without creating an account
- Research depth tiers let teams trade cost and latency, from under 2 seconds to around 5 minutes
- Enterprise options include zero data retention, SOC 2 and DPA-ready terms
- Used at scale by customers such as DuckDuckGo, Windsurf and Harvey, reportedly handling over a billion queries a month
Cons
- The pivot away from consumer search leaves no clear packaged assistant for non-technical teams
- Third-party sites list conflicting prices and plans, which makes budgeting confusing
- Mixed user sentiment, with Trustpilot around 2 out of 5 against G2 around 4.4 out of 5
- The public pricing page specifies rate limits only for the free and enterprise tiers
Key Features
You.com Pricing
Free (MCP)
- 100 Web Search queries per day via MCP
- No account, API key or credit card required
Enterprise
- Zero data retention
- SOC 2 and DPA-ready terms
- SLA-backed dedicated support
- Custom QPS and dedicated capacity
Pay as you go
- Auto top-up
- All endpoints, SDKs and MCP
- No minimums, seats or platform fee
- $10 free Web Search credit (about 2,000 searches)
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The MCP tier gives 100 Web Search queries per day with no account or card, and new pay-as-you-go accounts get $10 of Web Search credit.
Each request counts as one billable call whatever the number of results, except Contents, which is billed per page. Pricing is pay as you go with auto top-up.
Enterprise plans include zero data retention, SOC 2 certification, DPA-ready terms and CCPA compliance.
Yes. The Inference Router offers models such as Kimi, DeepSeek and GLM through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with failover and a 99.9% uptime SLA. Pricing varies by model.
The company has moved its focus to enterprise and API products. Its pricing page now lists only the free tier, pay as you go and Enterprise.
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