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by You.com

An AI research platform and API for cited, agentic web search at scale.

Pros

  • Developer-first APIs power AI agents and RAG
  • Pay-as-you-go with no minimums plus free credit
  • Specialized finance research endpoint

Cons

  • Consumer chat product has faded vs rivals
  • API-centric pricing confusing for non-developers
  • Less brand visibility than Perplexity/Google

✓ Where it shines / best for

  • Developers building AI search/agents
  • Enterprises needing cited research APIs
  • Finance/market research automation

✕ Not the best fit for

  • Casual consumers wanting a simple chat UI
  • Users seeking a flat-rate subscription
  • Academic full-text systematic reviews

Features

  • ✓ Cited Research API with inline references
  • ✓ Search API (LLM-ready snippets at scale)
  • ✓ Contents API for clean page extraction
  • ✓ Finance Research API for filings/markets
  • ✓ Multi-step search and synthesis pipeline
  • ✓ Multiple research depths (Lite to Frontier)
  • ✓ Python SDK, MCP server, REST access
  • ✓ Agentic enterprise research workflows

Pricing

PlanPriceBillingNotes
Free credit$0one-time$100 free API credit on signup
Search API$5.00per 1,000 callsUp to 100 results/call, news included; +$1/1k livecrawl pages
Contents API$1.00per 1,000 pagesMarkdown or raw HTML extraction
Research API (Lite)$12.00per 1,000 calls<10s latency
Research API (Standard)$50.00per 1,000 callsDefault tier, ~10-30s latency
Research API (Deep)$100.00per 1,000 calls<120s latency
Research API (Exhaustive)$450.00per 1,000 calls<300s latency
Research API (Frontier)>$2,000.00per 1,000 callsContact You.com; >1,000s latency
Finance Research API (Deep)$110.00per 1,000 callsExhaustive tier also available

Pricing verified from the official source. Prices change often — confirm on the vendor's site before buying.

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