# You.com

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/you-com/  
**Website:** https://you.com  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 29.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 29.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 43.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 18.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **You.com Search API** — 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.
- **You.com Contents API** — The Contents API extracts clean, structured page content from one or many URLs, returning text suitable for downstream LLM consumption.
- **You.com Research API** — The Research API orchestrates multi-step web research to produce ranked, cited responses to complex questions. It is benchmarked at the top of DeepSearchQA.
- **You.com Finance Research API** — The Finance Research API specializes in financial intelligence, returning sourced answers to investment and markets questions. Ranked first on FinSearchComp.

## Security (2)

- **You Com Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **You Com Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Plans (1)

- **You Com Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Search, AI Search, LLMs, AI Agents, Research, News, Finance, Web Index, Real-Time, SOC 2

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/you-com/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.