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-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/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: SDKs
    url: https://pypi.org/project/youdotcom/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://you.com/platform
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://you.com/docs
  - url: graphql/you-com-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
  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: kin@apievangelist.com