AI-ready API platform with vertical indexes, delivering advanced search capabilities to power enterprise AI applications and agents.
Features
- Search API — Delivers real-time web search results at record speed with industry-leading accuracy. The API provides comprehensive search results including titles, URLs, and snippets, optimized for AI agents and LLM applications requiring fresh, factual web data.
- Contents API — Enables fetching full page content from multiple URLs simultaneously in various formats including HTML. Streamlines content aggregation and analysis workflows by providing clean, structured content extraction from diverse web sources.
- Research API — A tiered research API ranked #1 in DeepSearchQA benchmark, offering configurable research effort levels from LITE to advanced. Pushes the frontier of accuracy and latency for both simple queries and complex multi-step research tasks with sourced citations.
- Enterprise-Grade Security — SOC2 certified infrastructure with zero data retention policies, automatic query purging, and DPA-ready architecture. Independently audited for best-in-class data security, privacy, and availability compliance.
- High-Performance Infrastructure — Delivers 300ms p99 latency (2X faster than competition), handles 10M+ daily queries at 99.99% uptime, and indexes 10M+ news sources. Custom QPS limits available for enterprise-grade concurrency requirements.
- Proven Accuracy Leadership — Outperforms all major providers on SimpleQA and FRAMES benchmarks, delivering higher accuracy with lower latency. Provides reliable, factual data that AI agents can confidently act upon for mission-critical applications.
Use Cases
AI Agent Web Search Integration
Power autonomous AI agents with real-time web search capabilities, enabling them to access current information, verify facts, and ground responses in up-to-date data. Ideal for building intelligent assistants that require reliable, fresh web data. Target Audience: AI/ML engineers and developers building autonomous agents, chatbots, and AI assistants
Enterprise Research Automation
Automate complex research workflows using the tiered Research API to gather, synthesize, and cite information from multiple web sources. Supports both quick lookups and deep multi-step research tasks with configurable effort levels. Target Audience: Enterprise research teams, market analysts, and knowledge management professionals
Content Aggregation and Analysis Pipelines
Build scalable data pipelines that fetch, extract, and analyze web content at scale using the Contents API. Enables monitoring of news, competitor content, and industry trends across millions of sources. Target Audience: Data engineers, business intelligence teams, and content platform developers
Breaking News and Real-Time Information Delivery
Deliver timely, accurate news and real-time information to end users by leveraging You.com's indexed 10M+ news sources with sub-second latency. Trusted by leading platforms like DuckDuckGo for mission-critical news delivery. Target Audience: News platforms, media companies, and consumer-facing applications requiring real-time information
Pros
- Industry-leading accuracy on SimpleQA and FRAMES benchmarks, outperforming all major competitors for reliable AI-grounded responses
- Exceptional performance with 300ms p99 latency (2X faster than competition) and 99.99% uptime for production-grade applications
- Enterprise-ready with SOC2 certification, zero data retention options, and DPA-ready compliance for regulated industries
- Trusted by major enterprises including DuckDuckGo, Alibaba, and Amazon, demonstrating proven scalability at 10M+ daily queries
- Comprehensive API suite (Search, Contents, Research) covering diverse use cases from simple lookups to complex research workflows
Cons
- Requires technical implementation and API integration, creating a barrier for non-technical users seeking simple search solutions
- Pricing details not publicly transparent, potentially limiting accessibility for startups and small businesses with budget constraints
- API-dependent architecture means applications are reliant on You.com's service availability and any potential rate limiting
- Advanced features like custom QPS limits and enterprise capabilities may require enterprise contracts with longer commitment periods


