You.com

Own crawl index + Research API T2 Search /youcom

You.com offers a web search API powered by its own index, plus a higher-order Research API that returns synthesized, cited answers to multi-step questions. It’s tuned specifically for grounding language models, with controls like domain boosting to steer results toward sources you trust. The mix of raw retrieval and ready-made research output makes it a flexible backend for everything from quick lookups to deep, agent-driven investigation.

Entry price
$5 / 1k
MCP
official
Latency

Choose if

You want an independent index with soft domain-boosting and a cited Research API.

Avoid if

You need a flat result shape (results live under results.web[] with snippets[] — needs an adapter).

Evals

How You.com performed on the curator-fleet web-access evals — the real measured numbers behind each composite, ranked best-first.

Answercomposite 7.79/10 #2 of 7
1.00
Correctness
0.51
Citation faithfulness
4.3 s
Latency p50
$0.02 / call
Cost
0%
Errors
Searchcomposite 7.41/10 #2 of 11
0.65
Recall@10
1.4 s
Latency p50
$0.0077 / useful result
Cost
0%
Errors
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