aid: you-com name: You.com description: >- You.com runs an AI search and chat product alongside a developer platform that exposes web search APIs designed for AI systems, agents, and LLMs. The platform offers Search, Web Search, Contents, News, Smart, Research, and Finance Research APIs for grounding LLMs in real-time web data. You.com publishes benchmark wins on DeepSearchQA and FinSearchComp and targets 300ms p99 latency with 99.99% uptime and SOC 2 enterprise controls. APIs use X-API-Key authentication and a Python SDK is available. Free trial access is provided through the platform dashboard with enterprise options including zero data retention. type: Index position: Provider access: 3rd-Party image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg tags: - Search - AI Search - LLMs - AI Agents - Research - News - Finance - Web Index - Real-Time - SOC 2 url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/you-com/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2026-05-23' modified: '2026-05-23' specificationVersion: '0.20' apis: - aid: you-com:search-api name: You.com Search API description: >- The You.com Search API returns real-time web search results tailored for AI agents and LLMs, with controls for freshness, category, and result shape. humanURL: https://you.com/docs baseURL: https://api.you.com/v1 tags: - Search - Web Search - Real-Time - REST properties: - type: Documentation url: https://you.com/docs - type: GettingStarted url: https://you.com/platform - type: SignUp url: https://you.com/platform - type: APIReference url: https://you.com/docs - type: SDK url: https://pypi.org/project/youdotcom/ - type: Pricing url: https://you.com/platform - type: Authentication url: https://you.com/docs features: - name: Real-Time Search description: Live web search results with snippets, URLs, and metadata for AI grounding. - name: Category Filters description: Filter results by category and freshness windows. - name: Low Latency description: Targeted 300ms p99 latency for interactive agent workloads. - name: Enterprise Controls description: SOC 2 certification, DPA support, and zero data retention options. useCases: - name: Agent Web Search Tool description: Provide agents with a fast web search tool for grounding. - name: Real-Time Q&A description: Power chat experiences that need fresh web context. - name: Knowledge Apps description: Back knowledge applications with live web search. integrations: - name: LangChain - name: LlamaIndex - name: OpenAI - name: Anthropic - name: Vercel AI SDK authentication: - type: API Key description: API key authentication via X-API-Key header. - aid: you-com:contents-api name: You.com Contents API description: >- The Contents API extracts clean, structured page content from one or many URLs, returning text suitable for downstream LLM consumption. humanURL: https://you.com/docs baseURL: https://api.you.com/v1 tags: - Contents - Extraction - Web properties: - type: Documentation url: https://you.com/docs - type: APIReference url: https://you.com/docs - type: Pricing url: https://you.com/platform features: - name: Multi-URL Extraction description: Submit multiple URLs and receive cleaned content per page. - name: Structured Output description: Structured fields for title, text, and metadata. - name: Token-Efficient Output description: Cleaned text reduces token usage for downstream LLM calls. useCases: - name: RAG Ingestion description: Convert URLs into clean text for RAG ingestion pipelines. - name: Agent Page Reading description: Let agents read full pages returned by search results. - name: Content Pipelines description: Feed extraction output into summarization or analysis chains. integrations: - name: LangChain - name: LlamaIndex - name: Vercel AI SDK authentication: - type: API Key description: API key authentication via X-API-Key header. - aid: you-com:research-api name: You.com Research API description: >- The Research API orchestrates multi-step web research to produce ranked, cited responses to complex questions. It is benchmarked at the top of DeepSearchQA. humanURL: https://you.com/docs baseURL: https://api.you.com/v1 tags: - Research - Agents - Grounded - LLMs properties: - type: Documentation url: https://you.com/docs - type: APIReference url: https://you.com/docs - type: Pricing url: https://you.com/platform features: - name: Multi-Step Research description: Decomposes complex questions into multi-step search and synthesis. - name: Citations description: Returns ranked sources with citations alongside the answer. - name: Benchmark Leadership description: Ranked first on the DeepSearchQA benchmark. useCases: - name: Deep Research Agents description: Power research agents for analysts and knowledge workers. - name: Q&A Copilots description: Build copilots that answer complex factual questions with citations. - name: Briefing Generation description: Produce briefings from multi-source web research. integrations: - name: LangChain - name: OpenAI - name: Anthropic authentication: - type: API Key description: API key authentication via X-API-Key header. - aid: you-com:finance-research-api name: You.com Finance Research API description: >- The Finance Research API specializes in financial intelligence, returning sourced answers to investment and markets questions. Ranked first on FinSearchComp. humanURL: https://you.com/docs baseURL: https://api.you.com/v1 tags: - Finance - Research - Markets - Grounded properties: - type: Documentation url: https://you.com/docs - type: APIReference url: https://you.com/docs - type: Pricing url: https://you.com/platform features: - name: Finance-Tuned Retrieval description: Retrieval and ranking tuned for financial sources and questions. - name: Cited Answers description: Returns answers with citations to financial sources. - name: Benchmark Leadership description: Ranked first on the FinSearchComp benchmark. useCases: - name: Investment Research Agents description: Power agents that answer markets and equity questions. - name: Equity Briefings description: Generate company briefings with cited financial sources. - name: Risk Monitoring description: Monitor financial risk signals from public sources. integrations: - name: LangChain - name: OpenAI - name: Anthropic authentication: - type: API Key description: API key authentication via X-API-Key header. common: - type: Website url: https://you.com - type: Documentation url: https://you.com/docs - type: Blog url: https://you.com/blog - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/YouCom - type: Pricing url: https://you.com/platform - type: TermsOfService url: https://about.you.com/terms-of-service/ - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://about.you.com/privacy-policy/ - type: X url: https://x.com/youdotcom - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/youdotcom maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com