You.com Research API

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.