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You.com is a web search and research API company that provides the real-time web data layer for AI systems, delivering search results, clean content extraction, and grounded answers through a family of developer APIs. The platform includes the Web Search API for real-time web and news results with LLM-ready snippets and rich metadata, the Contents API for extracting clean markdown or raw HTML from multiple URLs at scale, the Answer API that synthesizes a citation-grounded answer in a single call, the Research API for multi-step search and synthesis across the open web with inline references, and the Finance Research API for deeply sourced financial intelligence covering filings, macro data, markets, and derived calculations. You.com reports top scores on benchmarks including SimpleQA for factual grounding and DeepSearchQA for multi-step research, and its Highlights mode achieved a 95.17 percent SimpleQA score at the same 5 dollar CPM while being 35 percent cheaper than Claude's built-in web search. The platform is built for the agentic era, offering enterprise-grade features such as zero data retention options, SOC 2 certification, DPA-ready compliance, and custom QPS limits for high-volume workloads. Pricing is pay-as-you-go with a free tier of 100 queries per day and 100 dollars in free credits to start, then usage-based rates such as 5 dollars per 1k web search calls, 1 dollar per 1k pages for contents extraction, 5 dollars per 1k answer calls, 12 dollars per 1k research calls, and 110 dollars per 1k finance research calls, with volume discounts and annual savings available. Developers access the APIs through a Python SDK, REST API, and an MCP server, and the platform is used by enterprises including OpenAI, Amazon, Alibaba, Salesforce, and Databricks. The platform also offers a startup grant program that gives eligible early-stage teams credits to build on the APIs, and an interactive demo lets developers test search, contents, answer, and research endpoints in the browser before writing code. Documentation covers quickstarts, SDK usage, MCP server configuration, agent skills, and benchmark methodology, with an llms.txt file available for AI crawlers. You.com provides granular targeting with country, language, and freshness filters, livecrawl parameters for contents extraction, and operator support for guided outputs. The company publishes transparent benchmark updates, and its trust center documents security practices for enterprise buyers. For teams that want to evaluate quality first, the free tier and interactive demo remove friction from the evaluation process entirely.