You.com

aid: you-com
name: You.com
description: >-
  You.com runs an AI search and chat product alongside a developer platform
  that exposes web search APIs designed for AI systems, agents, and LLMs.
  The platform offers Search, Web Search, Contents, News, Smart, Research,
  and Finance Research APIs for grounding LLMs in real-time web data. You.com
  publishes benchmark wins on DeepSearchQA and FinSearchComp and targets
  300ms p99 latency with 99.99% uptime and SOC 2 enterprise controls. APIs
  use X-API-Key authentication and a Python SDK is available. Free trial
  access is provided through the platform dashboard with enterprise options
  including zero data retention.
type: Index
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Search
  - AI Search
  - LLMs
  - AI Agents
  - Research
  - News
  - Finance
  - Web Index
  - Real-Time
  - SOC 2
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/you-com/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
  - aid: you-com:search-api
    name: You.com Search API
    description: >-
      The You.com Search API returns real-time web search results tailored for
      AI agents and LLMs, with controls for freshness, category, and result
      shape.
    humanURL: https://you.com/docs
    baseURL: https://api.you.com/v1
    tags:
      - Search
      - Web Search
      - Real-Time
      - REST
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://you.com/docs
      - type: GettingStarted
        url: https://you.com/platform
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://you.com/platform
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://you.com/docs
      - type: SDK
        url: https://pypi.org/project/youdotcom/
      - type: Pricing
        url: https://you.com/platform
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://you.com/docs
    features:
      - name: Real-Time Search
        description: Live web search results with snippets, URLs, and metadata for AI grounding.
      - name: Category Filters
        description: Filter results by category and freshness windows.
      - name: Low Latency
        description: Targeted 300ms p99 latency for interactive agent workloads.
      - name: Enterprise Controls
        description: SOC 2 certification, DPA support, and zero data retention options.
    useCases:
      - name: Agent Web Search Tool
        description: Provide agents with a fast web search tool for grounding.
      - name: Real-Time Q&A
        description: Power chat experiences that need fresh web context.
      - name: Knowledge Apps
        description: Back knowledge applications with live web search.
    integrations:
      - name: LangChain
      - name: LlamaIndex
      - name: OpenAI
      - name: Anthropic
      - name: Vercel AI SDK
    authentication:
      - type: API Key
        description: API key authentication via X-API-Key header.
  - aid: you-com:contents-api
    name: You.com Contents API
    description: >-
      The Contents API extracts clean, structured page content from one or
      many URLs, returning text suitable for downstream LLM consumption.
    humanURL: https://you.com/docs
    baseURL: https://api.you.com/v1
    tags:
      - Contents
      - Extraction
      - Web
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://you.com/docs
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://you.com/docs
      - type: Pricing
        url: https://you.com/platform
    features:
      - name: Multi-URL Extraction
        description: Submit multiple URLs and receive cleaned content per page.
      - name: Structured Output
        description: Structured fields for title, text, and metadata.
      - name: Token-Efficient Output
        description: Cleaned text reduces token usage for downstream LLM calls.
    useCases:
      - name: RAG Ingestion
        description: Convert URLs into clean text for RAG ingestion pipelines.
      - name: Agent Page Reading
        description: Let agents read full pages returned by search results.
      - name: Content Pipelines
        description: Feed extraction output into summarization or analysis chains.
    integrations:
      - name: LangChain
      - name: LlamaIndex
      - name: Vercel AI SDK
    authentication:
      - type: API Key
        description: API key authentication via X-API-Key header.
  - aid: you-com:research-api
    name: You.com Research API
    description: >-
      The Research API orchestrates multi-step web research to produce ranked,
      cited responses to complex questions. It is benchmarked at the top of
      DeepSearchQA.
    humanURL: https://you.com/docs
    baseURL: https://api.you.com/v1
    tags:
      - Research
      - Agents
      - Grounded
      - LLMs
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://you.com/docs
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://you.com/docs
      - type: Pricing
        url: https://you.com/platform
    features:
      - name: Multi-Step Research
        description: Decomposes complex questions into multi-step search and synthesis.
      - name: Citations
        description: Returns ranked sources with citations alongside the answer.
      - name: Benchmark Leadership
        description: Ranked first on the DeepSearchQA benchmark.
    useCases:
      - name: Deep Research Agents
        description: Power research agents for analysts and knowledge workers.
      - name: Q&A Copilots
        description: Build copilots that answer complex factual questions with citations.
      - name: Briefing Generation
        description: Produce briefings from multi-source web research.
    integrations:
      - name: LangChain
      - name: OpenAI
      - name: Anthropic
    authentication:
      - type: API Key
        description: API key authentication via X-API-Key header.
  - aid: you-com:finance-research-api
    name: You.com Finance Research API
    description: >-
      The Finance Research API specializes in financial intelligence,
      returning sourced answers to investment and markets questions. Ranked
      first on FinSearchComp.
    humanURL: https://you.com/docs
    baseURL: https://api.you.com/v1
    tags:
      - Finance
      - Research
      - Markets
      - Grounded
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://you.com/docs
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://you.com/docs
      - type: Pricing
        url: https://you.com/platform
    features:
      - name: Finance-Tuned Retrieval
        description: Retrieval and ranking tuned for financial sources and questions.
      - name: Cited Answers
        description: Returns answers with citations to financial sources.
      - name: Benchmark Leadership
        description: Ranked first on the FinSearchComp benchmark.
    useCases:
      - name: Investment Research Agents
        description: Power agents that answer markets and equity questions.
      - name: Equity Briefings
        description: Generate company briefings with cited financial sources.
      - name: Risk Monitoring
        description: Monitor financial risk signals from public sources.
    integrations:
      - name: LangChain
      - name: OpenAI
      - name: Anthropic
    authentication:
      - type: API Key
        description: API key authentication via X-API-Key header.
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://you.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://you.com/docs
  - type: Blog
    url: https://you.com/blog
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/YouCom
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://you.com/platform
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://about.you.com/terms-of-service/
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://about.you.com/privacy-policy/
  - type: X
    url: https://x.com/youdotcom
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/youdotcom
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]