# You.com — AI Compare Ninja

> Search and research APIs that deliver web results, page contents, and citation-grounded answers for AI applications.

## Overview
- **Category:** Productivity (Research & knowledge work)
- **Status:** Active · checked - Active, but repositioned. The official pricing page now lists only API products, priced per 1,000 calls. The former consumer chat subscriptions no longer appear there. The chat platform is now linked only as a login option.
- **Paid from:** $5.00 / 1k calls (Web Search API)
- **Free access:** Free plan (100 queries per day without an API key. This is not listed as an official $0 plan.)
- **Website:** https://you.com/
- **Canonical URL:** https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/you-com

## What it does
- Web and news search with LLM-ready snippets and metadata
- Contents API returns Markdown or HTML for URL batches
- Answer API writes from retrieved passages only, with citations
- Research API from Lite to Exhaustive; Frontier via demo
- REST API, Python SDK, and MCP server access
- Filters for country, language, and freshness; livecrawl for fresh pages

## In brief
You.com provides search and research APIs (application programming interfaces) for AI apps: results, page content, and cited answers. LLM means large language model. The Search API mixes web and news; snippets are prepared for language models. MCP means Model Context Protocol.

Without a key, 100 queries per day are possible. The Answer API cites 93.48% on SimpleQA. Research also covers business reports and macro data and watches fiscal year, units, and time ranges. US-dollar prices are in the pricing overview.


## Pricing tiers
| Tier | Price | Period | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | free | 100 queries/day | No API key required; 100 queries per day; Web and news results in one query; LLM-ready snippets with rich metadata; Country, language, and freshness filters; $100 free credit |
| Web Search API | $5.00 | 1k calls | 1-100 results per call; News endpoint included at no extra cost; Up to 100 URLs per call included; LLM-ready snippets with rich metadata per result; Country and language targeting filters |
| Contents API | $1.00 | 1k pages | Batch multiple URLs per request; Clean Markdown or raw HTML per page; Reliable page extraction at scale; Accessible via the Search API livecrawl parameter; Python SDK, MCP server, and REST API access |
| Answer API | $5.00 | 1k calls | Answer generated only from retrieved passages; Synthesized response with citations; The same operators as Web Search; 93.48% accuracy on SimpleQA |
| Research API | $12.00 / $50.00 / $100.00 / $450.00 / $1,200.00 | 1k calls | Lite: fast retrieval for simple factual lookups; Standard: balanced depth for most production use cases; Deep: thorough multi-source research and synthesis; Exhaustive: comprehensive analysis across dozens of sources; Frontier: maximum depth, via demo booking only; All tiers include cited, source-backed answers with inline references |
| Finance Research API | $110.00 / $500.00 | 1k calls | Covers filings, macro data, markets, and derived calculations; Structured multi-source research beyond plain web search; Avoids fiscal year, unit, and period errors; Cited answers with traceable source references |

## Sources
All details regarding plans, limits, and features are based on official vendor documentation and the primary sources verified below.

- https://you.com/pricing

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*Source: AI Compare Ninja (2026) - https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/you-com*