You.com
An API platform for AI apps and agents offering real-time web search, content extraction, and multi-step research, with a free MCP trial and pay-per-use pricing.
About You.com
You.com offers a set of AI-oriented real-time web data APIs, including the Web Search API (real-time web search), Contents API (extract clean web content), Answer API (generate grounded answers), and Research API (multi-step web research), plus a Finance Research API. Developers can integrate these capabilities into their own agents and LLM applications via the SDK or an MCP server. The MCP server provides real-time search with no API key required, limited to 100 queries per day—ideal for prototype validation before formal integration. Pricing is usage-based with no minimum spend, no seat fees, and no platform fees, with auto-recharge support; the Enterprise plan offers zero data retention, SOC 2 certification, DPA-readiness, custom QPS, dedicated capacity, and SLA-backed support.
Best for
Best use cases
Connect real-time web search into agents or LLM apps via the API or MCP
Extract clean web page content for downstream processing
Generate grounded answers from models based on real-time search
Run multi-step web research that requires repeated searching, reading full pages, and cross-verification
Validate the integration using the free MCP quota before paying
Features
Web Search API
Returns real-time web search results, with an official latency of roughly p50 0.4 seconds. The standard plan supports highlights, Knowledge, content extraction, and domain filtering.
Contents API
Extracts clean web content, ideal for scenarios that need the full text rather than search snippets.
Answer API
Generates grounded answers based on real-time web data.
Research API
Performs multi-step research on the open web: automatically planning, searching repeatedly, reading full web pages, and cross-verifying before answering. The research_effort parameter adjusts cost and depth across five levels.
MCP Access
Provides an MCP server for real-time search with no API key required, limited to 100 queries per day—great for validating real-time search in your agent first.
Enterprise-Grade Data Controls
Queries and data can be automatically purged, infrastructure is independently audited under SOC 2, and the product is DPA-ready.
Pros
- Provides search, content extraction, answer generation, and multi-step research APIs in one place, serving directly as a real-time data layer for AI apps
- Offers a free MCP server (up to 100 queries per day) so you can validate the results before committing
- Supports zero data retention, SOC 2 certification, and DPA-readiness to meet enterprise compliance needs
- Usage-based billing with no minimum spend, no seat fees, and no platform fees
Pricing Plans
Web Search API Standard
- 完整端点访问：Highlights、Knowledge、提取和域名过滤
- 面向大规模生产流量
- p50 ~0.4s
ResearchLite
- 单次完成的简单事实查询
- 无结构化输出
- 延迟低于 2 秒
* Pricing information is for reference only. Please refer to the latest announcement on You.com's official website.