# You.com, free: Web scraping API

> 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.

You.com's web scraping API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 2 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown, HTML.
We rank 1,653 plans by price. [PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/40-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more up front than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.
[WebScraping.AI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/29-monthly-personal-get-html-get-page-html-datacenter-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt), [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) and [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/you-com/free
- [Best web scraping API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://you.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://ydc-index.io/v1/contents`
- API key: with the plan, on https://you.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://you.com/docs/api-reference/contents?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: You.com (https://you.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 29%
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓

## 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

## You.com's plans (3)

- [You.com, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/you-com/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, stored
- [You.com, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/you-com/top-up/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, stored
- [You.com, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/you-com/contact-us/llms.txt): 29% complete, stored

## You.com's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/contents`: [You.com, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/you-com/free/llms.txt)

## You.com's APIs (3)

- [You.com: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/you-com/free/llms.txt)
- [You.com: web search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/free-free/llms.txt)
- [You.com: news API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/you-com/free-post-mcp-profile-free/llms.txt)

## You.com: web scraping API alternatives

- [Exa, pay as you go, x402 or MPP, paid per request, POST /contents, Get contents](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/exa/pay-as-you-go-x402-or-mpp-paid-per-request-post-contents-get-contents/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, stored
- [Parallel, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/parallel/top-up/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $100 monthly, Growth Plan, POST /api/scrape, Scrape HTML](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapegraphai/100-monthly-growth-plan-post-api-scrape-scrape-html/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [OpenGraph.io, $200 pack, Pay As You Go Plan, GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}, Markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/opengraph-io/200-pack-pay-as-you-go-plan-get-api-3-0-markdown-encoded-url-markdown/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, stored

## 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.

- https://you.com/docs/administration/billing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://you.com/docs/administration/machine-payments.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://you.com/docs/agents/mcp-server.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://you.com/docs/api-reference/contents.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://you.com/docs/guides/contents.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://you.com/docs/rate-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://you.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://you.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing