You.com Web Search API
You.comWeb search API returning structured results for AI applications. Results carry keyword snippets by default, and an extraction mode on the same endpoint returns the whole page as markdown or the passages that address the query. One of six separately metered APIs You.com sells.
Scored as the Web Search API alone, which is what the slug names. You.com meters six separate APIs on one account - Web Search at $5 per 1,000 calls, full-page extraction as a $1 per 1,000 pages add-on, Contents, Answer, Research and Finance Research each at their own price - and the Answer API's cited answers belong to a different line item. The documentation HTML is a JavaScript shell; the `.md` variant of each page is what was read.
Openness
1 high confidence- 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.
Adoption
not assessedYou.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.
Capability
4 high confidenceYou.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".
Verified 2026-09-17