# You.com, free, Free: Web search API

> Real-time web and news results, optimized for programmatic access in AI applications.

You.com's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Text.
You get up to 3,000 calls a month.
The cheapest of the 243 plans we rank by price is [Keenable, free, Keyless](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/keenable/free-keyless/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt), [Serpex](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/top-up-from-50/llms.txt) and [Search1API](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/499-monthly-enterprise-post-search-search-full/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/free-free
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://you.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free`
- API key: with the plan, on https://you.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://you.com/docs/api-reference/search/v1-search
- Sold by: You.com (https://you.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Real-time web and news results, optimized for programmatic access in AI applications.

## Data

- 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
- Enough for: 3,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 100
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.40 s

## The call

- You send: query. 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
- Method: POST
- Path: /mcp?profile=free

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone: 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

## You.com's plans (6)

- [You.com, free, Free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/free-free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [You.com, free, credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/free-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [You.com, pay as you go, MPP](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/pay-as-you-go-mpp/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [You.com, pay as you go, x402](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/pay-as-you-go-x402/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [You.com, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [You.com, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): 33% complete

## You.com's calls (4)

- `POST /mcp?profile=free`: [You.com, free, Free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/free-free/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search: [You.com, free, credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/free-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, full: [You.com, free, credits, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/free-credits-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/agents/search`: [You.com, pay as you go, MPP](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/pay-as-you-go-mpp/llms.txt)

## You.com's APIs (1)

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

## You.com: web search API alternatives

- [Context.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Serpex, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Search1API, free, Free, POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/free-free-post-ask/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Firecrawl, free, Free, POST /v2/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [RouterGrowth, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/routergrowth/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete

## 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.

- https://you.com/docs/administration/billing.md
- https://you.com/docs/administration/machine-payments.md
- https://you.com/docs/agents/mcp-server.md
- https://you.com/docs/api-reference/search/v1-search.md
- https://you.com/pricing
- https://you.com/terms