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You.com: what’s new and our verdict

You.com now presents itself as search and inference infrastructure for AI: web search, answer and research APIs plus an inference router.

Official site

Release Ruler for You.com: marked at its Reported release date on the timeline of every AI model we track.

At a glance

Evidence
Reported
First covered
Oct 25, 2026
Last verified
Oct 25, 2026
Pricing
Official page, dated
Best for
AI search and research

Evidence and ranking

Evidence behind this verdict

  1. Sources read2 cited sources, latest fetched Oct 25, 2026. (done)
  2. Facts re-checkedLast verified Oct 25, 2026. (done)
  3. Not run by us yetWe have not run it, so this is labelled Reported. (not done)

Where we rank it (editorial)

Listed here but not yet ranked. Ranks are editorial picks, not benchmark scores.

Pricing: Read from you.com/pricing on 2026-10-25. Enterprise is custom. (checked 2026-10-25)

Our verdict

You.com now presents itself as search and inference infrastructure for AI: web search, answer and research APIs plus an inference router.

Good for

  • Developers adding web search or research to an agent

Skip if

  • You want a consumer chat assistant (the site now leads with APIs)

Status: Reported. This write-up is based on official release notes and docs; we have not run this release ourselves yet.

Best for

Key facts

You.com's homepage and pricing page describe search and inference for AI. The pricing page lists a Web Search API with a free tier (no API key, account or credit card for the MCP config) and a $5 per 1,000 calls standard tier, a Contents API at $1 per 1,000 pages, an Answer API at $5 per 1,000 calls and Research API tiers from $12 to $1,200 per 1,000 calls.

  • License: Proprietary
  • Platforms: API and MCP
  • Pricing model: Free tier + pay as you go
  • Free tier: Web Search API: free tier; no key, account or card needed for the MCP setup
  • Paid plans: Web Search $5 per 1k calls; Contents $1 per 1k pages; Answer $5 per 1k calls; Research Lite $12 to Frontier $1,200 per 1k calls
  • How to start: Get an API key from you.com or use the MCP config docs for the free tier.
  • Catalog entry: facts read from the vendor's pages on 2026-10-25. We do not track release notes for this entry.

How to set it up: Get started with You.com

These steps come from the vendor's own pages as read on 2026-10-25. We have not run You.com.

  1. Get access

    Get an API key from you.com or use the MCP config docs for the free tier.

  2. Check the limits and costs first

    Web Search API: free tier; no key, account or card needed for the MCP setup. Paid: Web Search $5 per 1k calls; Contents $1 per 1k pages; Answer $5 per 1k calls; Research Lite $12 to Frontier $1,200 per 1k calls. Read from you.com/pricing on 2026-10-25. Enterprise is custom.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Free search tier
  • Published per-call prices

Cons

  • Consumer app is no longer the focus of the homepage
  • Research prices climb steeply by depth tier

Alternatives and comparisons

  • Perplexity: AI search with citations in every answer; Pro is $20 a month ($17 billed annually) and Max is $200 ($167 billed annually).
  • Firecrawl: Web data API: search, scrape and crawl for AI agents.
  • Elicit: AI research assistant that searches academic papers, extracts data and drafts reports; free Basic tier with paid per-user plans.

FAQ

What is You.com?

You.com's homepage and pricing page describe search and inference for AI. The pricing page lists a Web Search API with a free tier (no API key, account or credit card for the MCP config) and a $5 per 1,000 calls standard tier, a Contents API at $1 per 1,000 pages, an Answer API at $5 per 1,000 calls and Research API tiers from $12 to $1,200 per 1,000 calls.

Is You.com free?

Web Search API: free tier; no key, account or card needed for the MCP setup. Paid: Web Search $5 per 1k calls; Contents $1 per 1k pages; Answer $5 per 1k calls; Research Lite $12 to Frontier $1,200 per 1k calls. Read from you.com/pricing on 2026-10-25. Enterprise is custom. Checked 2026-10-25; prices change, so confirm on the vendor's page.

What license is You.com under?

Its license: Proprietary. Read from the project's own pages on 2026-10-25.

What we have not verified

  • Release date (none published on the pages we read; the date shown is the day we first covered this entry)
  • Answer quality (not tested)

Sources

Last verified · Agentic Weekly

  • Elicit: AI research assistant that searches academic papers, extracts data and drafts reports; free Basic tier with paid per-user plans.
  • Perplexity: AI search with citations in every answer; Pro is $20 a month ($17 billed annually) and Max is $200 ($167 billed annually).

How to cite this page

Agentic Weekly, "You.com: what's new, verdict & setup", last updated 2026-10-25, https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/you-com

Keep the Reported or Tested label when you quote a verdict. Plain-text version: https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/you-com.md. More for AI assistants: /ai, /tools.json, /llms.txt.