You.com

license

Proprietary(API-only)

source

closed(no index published

managed

cloud SaaS with API keys, $5.00 per 1,000 search calls, extraction billed separately per page

Closed index at `ydc-index.io`, with an unusually large open client org around it - 39 public repos, mostly MIT. One detail worth recording rather than smoothing over: the official TypeScript SDK declares no licence at all, on npm or in its repository, so even "the SDK is MIT" is not uniformly true here.

• https://you.com/docs/administration/billing.md recorded 2026-09-17

  The price list for six separately metered APIs: Web Search $5.00 per 1,000 calls, full page extraction add-on $1.00 per 1,000 pages, Contents $1.00 per 1,000 pages, Answer $5.00 per 1,000 calls, Research from $12 per 1,000, Finance Research from $110 per 1,000. Establishes a hosted metered service and the SKU boundaries this record is scoped to.

You.com publishes no request or customer count for the Web Search API on its own, and its `youdotcom` PyPI client covers all six You.com APIs rather than Web Search alone, so its downloads measure a broader population than this product. The Parallel Search API is scored the same way for the same reason, leaving no channel here that measures Web Search specifically.

• https://you.com/docs/administration/billing.md recorded 2026-09-17

  The vendor's own pricing and product documentation, carrying rates and limits and no request, customer or developer count - which is why no level is recorded.

You.com's Web Search endpoint accepts an extraction-mode parameter that swaps snippets for full page content on the same call, priced separately at $1 per 1,000 pages -- the same shape as Kagi's inline extract -- so one endpoint covers both discovery and content, level with Firecrawl. The Answer API composes a cited response but is a separate SKU at its own price.

• https://you.com/docs/guides/search.md recorded 2026-09-17

  The extraction table: with no `extraction` parameter each result carries "snippets - short, keyword-centered fragments"; with `extraction_mode: "full_page"` it carries "snippets, plus contents.markdown or contents.html carrying the whole page"; with `extraction_mode: "highlights"` it carries "contents.highlights - the passages that address your query".