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You.com pricing and alternatives: web search API

You.com's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 243 plans we rank by price is Keenable, free, Keyless, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.Context.dev, Serpex and Search1API are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of You.com's 6 plans
Call: POST /mcp?profile=free one of You.com's 4 calls
API: Web search API You.com's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 3,000 calls a month.
  • One call. You send query to POST /mcp?profile=free. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone: no API key, no account, no credit card. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

You.com: web search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planYou.com, free, FreeContext.dev, freeSerpex, freeSearch1API, free, Free, POST /askFirecrawl, free, Free, POST /v2/searchRouterGrowth, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%17%17%33%33%0%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for3,000 calls a month1,000 calls a month200 calls20 calls, once500 calls a monthnot published
Freshnessunknownliveliveliveunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone: no API key, no account, no credit cardanyone aged 18 or over, one unpaid organization per personanyoneanyoneanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiananyone who verifies their email

Every web search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

  1. you.com/docs/administration/billing.md
  2. you.com/docs/administration/machine-payments.md
  3. you.com/docs/agents/mcp-server.md
  4. you.com/docs/api-reference/search/v1-search.md
  5. you.com/pricing
  6. you.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReal-time web and news results, optimized for programmatic access in AI applications.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou 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
Enough for3,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per day100
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.40 s
The call
You sendquery. Optional: count, freshness, offset, country, language, safesearch, knowledge, include_domains, exclude_domains, boost_domains, strict_operators, extraction.extraction_mode, extraction.extraction_source, extraction.highlights.total_max_tokens, extraction.full_page.extraction_formats, crawl_timeout
MethodPOST
Path/mcp?profile=free
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone: no API key, no account, no credit card
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, query, response time, page title, URL, description, snippet, thumbnail URL, favicon URL, published date, highlights, knowledge result type, knowledge result title, knowledge result description, knowledge result attribution, knowledge result as-of date

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