Tech riderRev. 4 Oct 2026
- 1Runs onAndroid, API, iOS, Web
- 2CostsFree plan
- 3File uploadsYes
- 4Team workspaceYes
4 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: you.com
Overview
You.com is ranked #8 of 28 in AI research assistants on Specifiction. It runs on Android, API, iOS, Web. There is a free plan.
You.com plans and pricing
All plansContents API $1 once $1.00 /1k pages Batch multiple URLs per request · $100 free credit you.com · 4 Oct 2026
Web Search API $5 once $5.00 /1k calls 1–100 results per call · $100 free credit you.com · 4 Oct 2026
Answer API $5 once $5.00 /1k calls Synthesized citation-grounded answers · $100 free credit you.com · 4 Oct 2026
Research API $12 once $12.00 /1k calls Lite, Standard, Deep, Exhaustive, and Frontier tiers · $100 free credit you.com · 4 Oct 2026
Finance Research API $110 once $110.00 /1k calls Deep and Exhaustive tiers · $100 free credit you.com · 4 Oct 2026
Compared on AI research assistants
Facts
- Product focus
- You.com describes its current offering as web search APIs that help developers search the web, extract content, and generate grounded answers for agents and LLMs.you.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The Web Search API is designed for developers building RAG systems, AI agents, knowledge bases, and data-driven applications.you.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Web search
- The Web Search API returns structured results from web and news sources, with metadata, snippets, and optional full-page content.you.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Contents extraction
- The Contents API extracts clean HTML or Markdown from supplied webpage URLs for LLM consumption.you.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Grounded answers
- The Answer API synthesizes natural-language answers from retrieved web results and returns inline citations and the source results.you.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Research
- The Research API uses multi-step web research and synthesis to return citation-backed answers, with selectable research effort levels.you.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Finance research
- The Finance Research API provides grounded, citation-backed answers to financial questions and covers filings, macro data, markets, and derived calculations.you.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Free access limit
- The free Web Search tier includes 100 queries per day, and the pricing page advertises $100 in free credits.you.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Data retention
- You.com says queries and data can be automatically purged through its Zero Data Retention option.you.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Security
- You.com says its infrastructure is SOC 2 certified and independently audited for security, privacy, and availability.you.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Enterprise controls
- The pricing page says You.com is DPA-ready and offers custom QPS limits for high-volume usage on request.you.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Usage pricing
- API pricing is pay-as-you-go with no minimums, and the company says volume discounts and annual usage discounts are available.you.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Output limitation
- You.com’s Master Services Agreement warns that generated output can be inaccurate or incomplete and should be independently reviewed.you.com · 4 Oct 2026
Company
- Founded
- 2020you.com · 28 Sept 2026
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, California, USAyou.com · 28 Sept 2026
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Sources
- you.com· checked 4 Oct 2026
- you.com/docs/guides/search· checked 4 Oct 2026
- you.com/docs/guides/contents· checked 4 Oct 2026
- you.com/docs/guides/answer· checked 4 Oct 2026
- you.com/docs/guides/research· checked 4 Oct 2026
- you.com/docs/guides/finance-research· checked 4 Oct 2026
- you.com/pricing· checked 4 Oct 2026
- you.com/msa· checked 4 Oct 2026