# You.com

> Web search, contents and research APIs that give AI agents and LLM apps fresh, cited web results

Source: https://dontaskagain.com/you-com
Website: https://you.com/?utm_source=dontaskagain
Pricing: Freemium
Categories: [Research](https://dontaskagain.com/categories/research.md)
Listed: 2026-10-24
Updated: 2026-10-24

You.com provides web search and inference APIs for AI applications. Developers' agents and language models use it to query the live web, retrieve clean page contents, get cited answers and run multi-step research.

**Key features:**

- Web Search API with real-time web and news results, highlights and domain filters.
- Contents API that turns URLs into clean markdown or HTML.
- Answer API that returns a cited answer in one call.
- Research API with five effort levels, from quick lookups to exhaustive multi-step research.
- Inference Router for running open-weight models through one API.
- MCP server and SDKs, plus an onboarding prompt for coding agents.

You.com targets developers and companies building agents and LLM products. A free tier allows 100 Web Search queries a day through MCP with no account or key. Pay-as-you-go pricing has no minimums or seats, with Web Search at $5 per 1,000 calls and Contents at $1 per 1,000 pages. Enterprise plans add zero data retention, SOC 2, custom capacity and SLAs.

## More research agents

- [Manus](https://dontaskagain.com/manus.md): General-purpose agent that turns a prompt into finished slides, websites, research, designs, videos and more
- [ChatGPT agent](https://dontaskagain.com/chatgpt-agent.md): ChatGPT's agent mode, which browses websites, fills forms, runs code and completes multi-step tasks on its own computer
- [Perplexity](https://dontaskagain.com/perplexity.md): Answer engine that searches the web with citations and, via Computer, completes handed-off projects as deliverables
- [Genspark](https://dontaskagain.com/genspark.md): AI workspace whose agents research, write and produce slides, sheets, docs, designs, media and code from one prompt
- [Claude](https://dontaskagain.com/claude.md): Anthropic's assistant that searches the web, runs code, creates files and completes tasks across connected apps
- [Elicit](https://dontaskagain.com/elicit.md): Research agent that searches academic papers and trials, screens studies and writes fully cited reports
- [Consensus](https://dontaskagain.com/consensus.md): Academic search engine that runs deep literature reviews over peer-reviewed papers and shows where evidence agrees
- [Undermind](https://dontaskagain.com/undermind.md): Research agent that reads hundreds of papers, follows citation trails and reports on the literature you need
- [Exa](https://dontaskagain.com/exa.md): Search API and agentic search engine that gives AI agents fast, token-efficient access to web and company data
- [Parallel](https://dontaskagain.com/parallel.md): Web APIs that let AI agents search, extract, monitor and run cited multi-step research tasks across the web