What is YOU?
You.com’s Web Search APIs are purpose-built for AI developers who need real-time, accurate, and grounded web intelligence. Whether you're building AI agents, research tools, or enterprise data pipelines, these APIs deliver clean search results, full-page content, and deep financial insights—without the noise. Unlike generic search tools, You.com’s APIs are optimized specifically for LLMs and agentic systems, ensuring responses are fresh, cited, and ready to power next-gen applications.
Trusted by companies like DuckDuckGo, Alibaba, and Amazon, You.com combines speed (with 300ms p99 latency—2x faster than competitors) and reliability (99.99% uptime) in a privacy-first, enterprise-ready platform. With zero data retention and SOC2 certification, it’s designed for teams that demand both performance and compliance.
What are the features of YOU?
- Web Search API: Delivers real-time, structured search results with titles, URLs, and snippets—perfect for grounding LLM responses.
- Contents API: Fetches full HTML or cleaned content from multiple URLs in one call, simplifying aggregation and analysis.
- Research API: Ranked #1 in DeepSearchQA, it handles complex queries with tiered effort levels (Lite to Deep) for balanced speed and depth.
- Finance Research API: Provides source-reconciled financial insights across filings, macro trends, and multi-step calculations—no infrastructure needed.
- Enterprise-Grade Security: SOC2 certified, DPA-ready, and supports automatic data purging for full control over your data.
- High Performance at Scale: Supports 10M+ daily queries with custom QPS limits for high-volume use cases.
What are the use cases of YOU?
- Powering AI chatbots that cite real-time sources for trustworthy answers
- Building financial analysis tools that compare company metrics like free cash flow across fiscal years
- Aggregating news or blog content for market research or competitive intelligence
- Enabling AI agents to autonomously gather and synthesize information from the live web
- Supporting academic or policy research with cited, multi-source summaries on complex topics
- Enhancing internal knowledge bases with up-to-date web-sourced context
How to use YOU?
- Sign up for a free API key at You.com’s API Platform
- Install the official SDK (
pip install youdotcom) or use direct HTTP requests - Choose the right API endpoint (Search, Contents, Research, or Finance Research) based on your need
- For financial queries, use the Finance Research API with
"research_effort": "deep"for detailed analysis - Always include your API key in the
X-API-Keyheader or via SDK authentication - Review the API docs to understand response structures and available parameters like formats or effort levels
