A suite of developer APIs providing access to a web-connected large language model, enabling applications to perform real-time search, have conversations, generate content, and provide accurate, cited answers.
The You.com API is a developer platform from the AI search engine You.com, offering programmatic access to its powerful large language models (LLMs) and real-time web index. It is designed for developers, startups, and enterprises who need to integrate advanced, web-grounded conversational AI and search capabilities into their products. Unlike many standalone LLMs, its unique value proposition is the native fusion of a language model with an up-to-date web index, enabling it to deliver accurate, verifiable responses complete with citations. The platform offers various specialized modes for tasks like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), coding assistance, and research. This makes it a powerful tool for building next-generation applications that require both conversational intelligence and factual accuracy grounded in current information.
Software developers, AI researchers, startups, and enterprise product teams building applications requiring conversational AI, enhanced search, or real-time, web-grounded information retrieval.
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2020
Palo Alto, USA
Free
500 Credits/month. Intended for personal projects and exploration with a rate limit of 3 requests per minute.
Free
Developer
5,000 Credits/month. Geared toward early-stage development with a rate limit of 6 requests per minute.
$10/mo
Scale
30,000 Credits/month. Designed for growing applications with a increased rate limit of 20 requests per minute.
$50/mo
Enterprise
For high-volume production applications. Includes custom credit amounts, the highest rate limits, access to custom models, and dedicated support.
Custom
A direct competitor focused on providing a conversational answer engine API that also offers real-time web access and citations.
The market leader, chosen for its powerful general-purpose models (GPT series) and vast ecosystem, though it requires extra work to connect to live web data.
A strong alternative from Google integrating powerful multimodal models with its search infrastructure, though its API offering is more generalist.
This is a good choice if you primarily need raw, unbiased search results from an independent index to build your own RAG system, rather than a pre-packaged answer engine.
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