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You.com pricing

You.com sells web search, answer, research and inference APIs for AI applications, priced per call.

AI search enginesFree planPriced per minuteSelf-serve + sales
Visit You.comPrices checked Oct 29, 2026

How much does You.com cost?

Usage price from $5/minute
Free plan
Yes
Free trial
$10 free credit (2,000 searches) for Web Search API
Usage price
$5/minute
Enterprise
Contact sales
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In your favor

  • Free plan. Free MCP access to Web Search with up to 100 queries a day, no API key, account or credit card needed
  • No setup fee. Setup is included in the price.
  • Notice before price changes. Fees may increase; additional fees require review and acceptance before charge

How you buy and get started

Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Get API key, Get free API Key, Talk to a human, Contact Sales
Sign up
Self-serve API key signup; free MCP use needs no account
"Get API key"
Setup
Not stated
When sales steps in
Enterprise needs: custom pricing, custom QPS, dedicated capacity, SLA-backed support
"Custom QPS and dedicated capacity"
Support
Dedicated support for enterprise
"Direct access to our engineering team for onboarding, optimization, and priority issue resolution."

What You.com does

You.com provides a Web Search API, Contents API, Answer API, Research API, Finance Research API and an Inference Router API, plus an MCP server. Pricing is pay as you go per 1,000 calls, with a free MCP tier and custom enterprise plans.

Good for
Developers and enterprises building AI agents, RAG apps and research tools that need real-time web data, cited answers and open-weight model inference.
Channels
API, MCP server, SDKs, Agent skills, Chat platform
Main product
Web Search API
Also includes
Web Search API, Contents API, Answer API, Research API, Finance Research API, Inference Router API
Connects to
MCP server, OpenAI-compatible API
Public API
Yes
MCP server
Yes
  • Cited AI answersOne call turns a question into a cited answer with the sources it used.
  • Connectors to work appsNot stated
  • Permission-aware resultsNot stated
  • Live web searchReal-time web and news results, optimized for programmatic access in AI applications.
  • Agents and workflowsMulti-step research on the open web. It plans, searches repeatedly, reads full pages, and cross-references bef
  • Search API accessAll endpoints, SDKs and MCP
  • SSO and SOC 2Not stated
  • No training on your dataWe do not use the substance of your prompts, files, or generated outputs to train or fine-tune our own models

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Security and your data

QuestionTheir answerWhere it says so
Trains AI on your data?no"We do not use the substance of your prompts, files, or generated outputs to train or fine-tune our own models"privacy
HIPAA (signs a BAA)Not stated
SOC 2SOC 2 certified"SOC 2 certified"home
GDPRGDPR listed under compliance"GDPR"security
CCPACompliant with CCPA"Compliant with California Consumer Privacy Act requirements for data handling and consumer rights."home
PCINot stated
ISO 27001Not stated
Single sign-onNot stated
Trust centeryes"You.com's Trust Center"security

Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.

Every plan

PlanMonthlyBilled yearlyIncludedOver the allowanceWhere it says so
Free (MCP) – – 100 queries per day – "100 Web Search API queries/day via MCP"
Web Search API Standard/1k calls $5per minute – – – "$5"
Contents API/1k Pages $1per minute – – – "$1"
Answer API/1k calls $5per minute – – – "$5"
Research Lite/1k calls $12per minute – – – "$12"
Research Standard/1k calls $50per minute – – – "$50"
Research Deep/1k calls $100per minute – – – "$100"
Research Exhaustive/1k calls $450per minute – – – "$450"
Research Frontier/1k calls $1,200per minute – – – "$1,200"
Finance Research Deep/1k calls $110per minute – – – "$110"
Finance Research Exhaustive/1k calls $500per minute – – – "$500"
Inference Router API – – – – "Varies by model"
Enterprise Quote – – – "Custom"

Free plan: Free MCP access to Web Search with up to 100 queries a day, no API key, account or credit card needed

Fine print

Billing increment
per call (per 1k calls); Contents per page
"Contents is billed per page returned."
Billed beyond usage
Not stated
Contract
No minimums on pay as you go
"No minimums, no seats, no platform fee"
Refunds
Payments non-refundable except as stated in Terms or required by law
"Except as expressly provided in these Terms or where required by law, all payments are non-refundable."
Auto renew
Paid subscriptions auto-renew monthly or annually until cancelled
"we will automatically charge your Payment Method on each monthly or annual renewal date until you cancel."
Price change notice
Fees may increase; additional fees require review and acceptance before charge
"We may increase fees for our Services."

"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.

About the company

Legal name
SuSea, Inc.
Online since
Nov 25, 1998
Domain registration date
Founder
Richard Socher, CEO & Founder
Customers
"Powering web search for leading enterprises"
their claim

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Questions

Is You.com free?

Yes. Free MCP access to Web Search with up to 100 queries a day, no API key, account or credit card needed

Does You.com train AI on your data?

No, according to You.com: "We do not use the substance of your prompts, files, or generated outputs to train or fine-tune our own models"