# You.com

> Web search and AI model access APIs for production AI

- Page on StartupList: https://startuplist.tech/launches/you-com
- Website: https://you.com/
- Category: AI Search
- Price: Free + $5/use
- Company: You.com (https://startuplist.tech/companies/you-com)
- Used for: Build a chatbot, Answer questions with AI, Host a web app

## At a glance

- The problem it solves: Developers building AI applications need current, reliable web data and model access without managing several separate providers
- Who it's for: Businesses (B2B)

## About

You.com provides APIs for building AI applications. Its core products are a Web Search API that returns ranked, real-time web and news results, and an Inference Router that runs open-weight AI models through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

The Web Search API is built for AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation. It returns ranked results your own model reads and reasons over, so you keep control of how answers are written. Related endpoints cover fetching and parsing known URLs, a single call that returns a cited answer, multi-step research on the open web, and a finance-focused research engine.

The Inference Router gives access to a range of open-weight models, including models from Kimi, DeepSeek, GLM and Qwen. According to the page, requests run first on You.com's own infrastructure with backup providers ready to take over, and failover reroutes requests automatically. The site states a 99.9% uptime SLA.

The company says its models and web search are US-hosted, offer zero data retention on request, and come with daily usage visibility and spend caps on every API key. Enterprise plans add custom rate limits, dedicated capacity, SOC 2 certification, DPA support and dedicated engineering support.

For developers, the Web Search API has a free MCP server option that allows up to 100 queries a day with no API key or account. Pay-as-you-go pricing starts with a $10 free credit and is priced per call, with Web Search at $5 per 1,000 calls. The Answer API is also $5 per 1,000 calls, and Research API tiers range from $12 to $1,200 per 1,000 calls depending on depth.

The site is aimed at engineers and companies building AI products that need current web data or reliable model access. It is not a consumer product.

## Links

- [You.com on StartupList](https://startuplist.tech/launches/you-com)
- [Website](https://you.com/)