You.com APIs API

you.com

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Web Search, Contents, Answer and Research APIs with citations for LLMs. Buying direct: $100 free credits; usage-based. Listed Sep 29, 2026.

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Calls, 30 days: 0
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Overview

Researched from the vendor's own pages; every fact links to its source and the day we checked it.

You.com Platform APIs: Web Search (ydc-index.io/v1/search), Contents (/v1/contents), Answer, Research and Finance Research (api.you.com/v1/*), plus an MCP server. X-API-Key auth; per-endpoint per-second limits (10 req/s default, 5 req/s finance). Publishes per-product OpenAPI 3.1 specs.

Company

Legal name: Not confirmed
Headquarters: Not confirmed
Founded: Not confirmed
Employees: Not confirmed
Ownership: Not confirmed
Kind: Data provider
Website: Not confirmed

API

Verified

Access: Self-serve API
Style: REST
Auth: API key (header)
Base URL: https://ydc-index.io/v1https://api.you.com/v1/answerhttps://api.you.com/v1/research
Features: Bulk —Async —Webhooks —MCP YesSandbox —
MCP server: api.you.com
Rate limit: 10 requests/second per endpoint (Finance Research 5/s); enterprise custom
Docs: Reference Rate limits

Pricing

Model: pay as you go
List prices: Full page extraction $1.00 per 1,000 pages, on top of base Web Search
Currency: USD
Free tier: $100 in complimentary credits
Checked: Sep 29, 2026

Compliance

SOC 2: Not confirmed
GDPR: Not confirmed
CCPA: Not confirmed
DPA: Not confirmed
Resale / storage: Unknown until a written agreement says otherwise

Relationships

Integrations: Not confirmed
Alternatives: None named by the vendor

Sources (3)

You.com quickstartchecked Sep 29, 2026
You.com rate limitschecked Sep 29, 2026
You.com API reference indexchecked Sep 29, 2026

Placement in the Grid

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Placement in the GridRouter Grid by category
Category	Placement	Execute	Coverage	Calls	Report
Web Data	Not yet rated	–	–	0	View Grid
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API

The vendor's OpenAPI document as stored in the catalog, its operations, and the rate limits it publishes.

Reconstructed · low confidenceOpenAPI 3.1.0 · 2 operations · checked Sep 29, 2026 Spec (YAML)Vendor's spec

Rebuilt from the vendor's public docs, only what the pages show. Each operation links the page it came from; response shapes the docs don't spell out are left empty rather than guessed.

Operations in the you-com spec
Method	Path	Summary	Params	Source
GET	/search	Web search	0	Docs
POST	/contents	Contents	0	Docs

Rate limits

Published rate limits for you-com
Limit	Scope	Plan	Endpoint	Burst / concurrency
10 / second	endpoint	All	/v1/search	— / —
10 / second	endpoint	All	/v1/contents	— / —
10 / second	endpoint	All	/v1/answer	— / —
10 / second	endpoint	All	/v1/research	— / —
5 / second	endpoint	All	/v1/finance_research	— / —

GridRouter never paces above these and backs off on 429, honoring Retry-After. Source, checked Sep 29, 2026