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You.com API pricing
What You.com Web Search returns, what each call includes, how free and paid use work, when sales is needed, and priced alternatives.
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Your job
What You.com API counts
What you pay
Successes you want
100,000 standard searches
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
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Attempts you are billed for
100,000 standard searches
You.com API bills failed fetches. This workload assumes none fail, so nothing is added here.
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What the meter counts
100,000 requests
One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.
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Metered cash this month
$500.00 /mo
Web Search API. Cheapest of every eligible purchase option, not the first plan that fits.
Bars share one linear scale across the 3 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.
100,000 standard searches → 100,000 request → Web Search API $500.00/mo = $5.00 per 1,000 searches
Cheaper for this job
Same 100,000 standard search calls with one default-depth result set per call, ranked by what you would actually be billed. Unknown totals never enter the numeric order.
Every You.com API plan
| Plan | Monthly | If billed yearly | Prepaid pack | Included | Simultaneous sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web Search API your job | Not published | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
What consumes a unit
This is where a bill actually grows. One operation is not one billed unit, and the multiplier is published here rather than on the pricing page.
| Operation | Costs | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| search.query | 1 request | request | source |
What You.com API does not publish
- Failed-call billing is not published.
- The exact duration and eligibility of the $100 complimentary credit are not stated on the loaded pricing page.
- The daily free tier does not fit the schema's monthly or trial period choices, so period is null and the cadence is preserved in notes.
- No explicit attribution requirement was found in the reviewed first-party pages.
Product scope and returned result
You.com Web Search API returns real-time web and news result records for AI applications. A response can include titles, URLs, LLM-oriented snippets, and result metadata, with country and language filters. The public price includes News and allows from one to 100 URLs in a call. You.com also sells Contents and Research APIs, but those return full page content or synthesized cited research and have separate prices. (You.com pricing and API welcome, retrieved 2026-07-26).
The comparable job for this record is ranked web retrieval, not full-page extraction and not a multi-step research answer. Keeping those products separate prevents a buyer from adding the Contents or Research rate to every Search call when those endpoints are not used. (You.com pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Every recorded meter
The stored meter is one Web Search API request per call. Paid usage costs $5 per 1,000 calls. News is included in that rate, and a call may return up to 100 URLs without a separate result-count meter in the current record. The reviewed public pages do not state whether failed calls are billed. (You.com pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).
The free profile is limited to 100 calls per day. That is a daily allowance, not a monthly plan. The current public documentation also states that new API-platform accounts start with $100 in complimentary credit, but it does not state the credit’s duration or all eligibility conditions. (You.com pricing and API welcome, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Contract path, minimum, and trial
A buyer can test you-search through You.com’s free MCP profile without an API key, signup, or credentials, up to 100 queries per day. For higher limits, Contents, Research, or standard application credentials, the buyer creates a platform account and API key. The pricing page states that pay-as-you-go use has no minimum, so ordinary Web Search does not require a quote. (You.com pricing and API welcome, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Sales is available for annual usage, custom concurrency, procurement, and enterprise data controls. A buyer should provide monthly calls, expected URLs per call, countries and languages, News usage, peak QPS, retention requirements, and any DPA or zero-data-retention need. The acceptable-use policy prohibits copying or storing significant portions of API content for reuse without another agreement, so a durable result store should be raised explicitly in that discussion. (You.com pricing and acceptable-use policy, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Price status and why there is no monthly plan price
You.com publishes a per-call rate and a daily free allowance instead of a fixed monthly Web Search subscription. Enterprise commitments can be negotiated, but the standard endpoint is openly priced and has no minimum. (You.com pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Priced alternatives
- Tavily Project starts at $30 per month. (Tavily API credits, retrieved 2026-07-26).
- Olostep Starter starts at $9 per month. (Olostep, retrieved 2026-07-26).
- Firecrawl Hobby starts at $16 per month when billed annually, or $19 month to month. (Firecrawl pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Answer
You.com API's dated 2026-07-26 price snapshot gives $500.00 for 100,000 standard searches on its Web Search API offer. This older figure is excluded from rankings; check the vendor before buying.
Recorded 2026-07-26 from the vendor's own pricing page.A vendor page moved or could not be matched closely enough. Treat this as an older snapshot and check the vendor before buying.