Felo Search vs You.com

Felo Search is an AI-driven search engine that searches the web in real time and presents answers with numbered footnotes linking to sources. It accepts natural-language questions. Quick Search is intended for fast answers, while Professional Search examines questions from multiple dimensions and may ask follow-up questions. Results can include related image and video blocks in a sidebar. Users can upload TXT, Word, or PDF files up to 25 MB for analysis. Free users can analyze up to three files per day, with one file per question and up to one million words processed. Uploaded files are retained for seven days; Felo Pro files are retained permanently, according to the file-upload FAQ. The service is available on Android, iOS, and the web. Its free plan allows five professional searches per day. Professional Version costs $14.99 a month and allows 100 professional searches per day with unlimited file analyses per day. Subscription payments are processed through Stripe, which accepts Visa, MasterCard, and AMEX cards.

You.com describes its current offering as web search APIs for developers building RAG systems, AI agents, knowledge bases and data-driven applications. The Web Search API returns structured web and news results with metadata, snippets and optional full-page content. The Contents API extracts clean HTML or Markdown from supplied URLs. Answer synthesizes retrieved results into natural-language answers with inline citations, while Research uses multi-step research and synthesis with selectable effort levels. Finance Research returns citation-backed answers to financial questions involving filings, macro data, markets and derived calculations. A hosted MCP server connects search, extraction and research tools to LLMs and agents, with setup guides for several development tools. The free Web Search tier includes 100 queries per day, and the pricing page advertises $100 in free credits. Listed usage rates include $1.00 /1k pages for Contents, $5.00 /1k calls for Web Search and Answer, $12.00 /1k calls for Research, and $110.00 /1k calls for Finance Research. API use is pay-as-you-go with no minimums; paid plans are listed from $15/user/mo (annual). The company says generated output can be inaccurate or incomplete and should be independently reviewed.