You.com pricing: web scraping API

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29% complete: 2 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields

$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe rank 1,653 plans by price. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages: as little as $0.022. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan covers up to 15,000 pages a day.Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more up front than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Scrappey are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: Free credits one of You.com's 3 plans

Call: POST /v1/contents You.com's only call for this API

POST /v1/contentsFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Web scraping API one of You.com's 3 APIs

About this item

Stored. You get the page from You.com's cache. You.com doesn't say how old the data is.
2 of the 7 key fields we check. Markdown, HTML.
Nothing to pay. You get $100 of credit once, enough for 100,000 results. Calls stop once your credit runs out. Unused credit expires after 60 days.
One call. You send urls to POST /v1/contents. You can also send formats, crawl_timeout and max_age. The call returns each page's content.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

You.com: web scraping API alternatives

You.com alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked

The table starts with You.com's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to You.com's. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

	You.com, top-up	Exa, pay as you go, x402 or MPP, paid per request, POST /contents, Get contents	Parallel, top-up	ScrapeGraphAI, $100 monthly, Growth Plan, POST /api/scrape, Scrape HTML	OpenGraph.io, $200 pack, Pay As You Go Plan, GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}, Markdown
$ per 1,000 pages	$1.00	$1.00	$1.00	$1.00	$1.00
Completeness	29%	71%	14%	14%	43%
Billing	pay first	pay as you go	pay first	monthly	pay first
Pay	any amount	per call	any amount	$100	$200
Enough for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	100,000 calls a month	200,000 calls
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	stored
Who can get it	anyone	AI agents paying in USDC over x402 or MPP, no Exa account or API key needed	anyone outside the jurisdictions export law bars	anyone who can form a binding contract and whose use is lawful where they and their users operate (its terms: "You may use ScrapeGraphAI only if you can form a binding contract and if your use is lawful in the places where you and your users operate.")	anyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Screenshot, not in the answer
Markdown
HTML
Text, not in the answer
Summary, not in the answer
Links, not in the answer
Images, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 pages	$0.00
Per	result
Billing	free

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Web Search API · Answer API · Research API · Finance Research API

Overage
Units cap	hard

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Give it URLs you already have, get back clean Markdown or HTML per page. Use it when you know which pages you want and just need them parsed, not searched.

Data
Freshness	stored
Keep data	no limit
Use data	You agree that you will not, and will not allow or assist anyone else to, use the Services for any illegal, unauthorized, malicious or harmful activities (“Prohibited Conduct”). Prohibited Conduct includes, but is not limited to: modifying, copying, sublicensing, leasing, selling or otherwise distributing any of our Services, reverse engineering, decompiling or attempting to discover the source code or underlying components of our Services, automatically or programmatically extracting data or Output [...] except when you are accessing our Services via a you.com API key or where we otherwise explicitly permit it, developing any products or services that compete with our Services, including the development or training of any artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms or large language models, crawling, scraping, or otherwise harvesting data or information from our Services other than as may be expressly permitted, interfering with or disrupting our Services, including circumvent any rate limits or restrictions. Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Service, we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Outputs

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	$100
Enough for	100,000 results, once
Expires	60 days

Rate limit
Per second	10
Batch	10

Speed
Answer	in the call
Median	0.25 s

The call
You send	urls. Optional: formats, crawl_timeout, max_age
Method	POST
Path	/v1/contents

About the plan
Plan	Free credits
Who can get it	anyone who signs up for an API key: $10 on sign-up and $90 more when the account is verified

The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, page title, page markdown, page HTML, site name, favicon URL