You.com
Web search APIs for AI apps and agents
You.com now sells web search APIs for AI apps and agents. Developers call them to search the web, pull clean text from pages, and get answers grounded in web sources. A chat app is still there for people who sign in.
Editor rating is our overall editorial judgment of the tool, out of 5. It is not a test score and not a user-review average. Ratings have not been re-scored since the tool was listed here. The reasons are in Best for and Pros & cons below.
Requires some technical comfort with API keys, command line, or coding. If you're new to AI, start with a chat-based tool first.
Best for
Pros & cons
✓ Pros
✗ What this won't do
Use cases
Giving an AI agent live web search
Grounding chatbot answers in fresh web pages
Developer documentation lookup
Product comparison research
Know what You.com is now
You.com now focuses on web search for AI apps and agents. These steps follow its developer docs.
Try it free with MCP
Connect an MCP tool such as Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code to the free You.com profile, with no API key. MCP is a standard way to plug tools into AI apps.
Run a search
Ask your AI tool to search the web, or in Python call you.search with a query like "best practices for scaling microservices". Each result has a title, a link and snippets.
Mind the free limit
The keyless free profile allows 100 queries a day. For more, get started for free on the You.com platform and use an API key.
Compare alternatives
| Tool | Category | Editor rating | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| You.com (current) | Research / Search | 4.4 | Free / $15 mo |
| FireCrawl | Data | 4.5 | Free (1,000 credits/mo) / from $16 mo |
| Perplexity AI | Research / Search | 4.7 | Free / $20 mo |