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You Com Rate Limits

You Com Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for You.com on the APIs.io network — every limit transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own documentation on 2026-10-07.

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, including Web Search API default limit — 10 requests/second; Contents API default limit — 10 requests/second; Answer API default limit — 10 requests/second.

Limit state is signalled in the X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, and Retry-After response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

Tagged areas include Search, AI Search, LLM, AI Agents, and Research.

5 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 X-RateLimit-LimitX-RateLimit-RemainingX-RateLimit-ResetRetry-After
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-10-07 — you.com/docs/rate-limits.
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Limits

Web Search API default limit endpointself-serve
10 requests/second
/v1/search
· per second
10
Contents API default limit endpointself-serve
10 requests/second
/v1/contents
· per second
10
Answer API default limit endpointself-serve
10 requests/second
/v1/answer
· per second
10
Research API default limit endpointself-serve
10 requests/second
/v1/research
· per second
10
Finance Research API default limit endpointself-serve
5 requests/second
/v1/finance_research
· per second
5

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