AI Search & Research Tools
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
You.com provides real-time web data and inference infrastructure for AI applications. Its APIs include Web Search for ranked web and news results, Contents for extracting clean Markdown or HTML from URLs, Answer for cited answers in one call, Research for multi-step web research across effort tiers, and Finance Research tuned for financial questions. The Inference Router offers access to leading open-weight models through one OpenAI-compatible API with multi-provider failover, built-in web search, zero data retention, and per-model cost visibility. Developers and enterprises use these endpoints to ground LLMs in fresh data, build RAG pipelines, and run production AI workloads. Access starts with a free MCP-based Web Search tier of up to 100 queries per day, pay-as-you-go API pricing, and custom enterprise plans.
Sign in to the You.com platform to create an API key for the search and inference endpoints.
Select Web Search, Contents, Answer, Research, Finance Research, or the Inference Router based on whether you need sources, extracted pages, cited answers, or model access.
Use the documented SDKs or OpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint to send requests and receive results.
Use the MCP server without an API key for up to 100 Web Search API queries per day before signing up.
Grounding LLMs in fresh web data for RAG pipelines
Extracting clean content from known URLs
Generating cited answers to user questions
Producing multi-step research reports
Analyzing financial and market data
Running AI workloads through one API with multi-provider failover
One request to an endpoint is one billable call, regardless of how many results it returns. Contents is billed per page returned.
No. The free MCP tier requires no API key, account, or credit card.
The Standard tier costs $5 per 1,000 calls. A free MCP tier offers up to 100 queries per day.
ResearchLite, ResearchStandard, ResearchDeep, ResearchExhaustive, and ResearchFrontier, priced from $12 to $1,200 per 1,000 calls.
Yes. It uses an OpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint and routes requests across multiple providers.
Yes, zero data retention is available, and models are US-hosted.
Yes. Enterprise plans offer custom pricing, higher rate limits, SOC 2, DPA readiness, and dedicated support.
The MCP server provides live web search through the Model Context Protocol without an API key, up to 100 queries per day.
Prices are per 1,000 calls or pages in USD. The free tier provides up to 100 Web Search API queries per day via MCP without an API key. Enterprise pricing is custom.
Free access to the Web Search API through the MCP server without an API key, account, or credit card.
Usage-based pricing for production workloads with no minimums, seats, or platform fee. The starting price shown is for the Web Search API Standard tier.
Custom pricing for enterprise teams needing higher rate limits, security, and dedicated support.
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