supermarket

Search the web

You.com API

Web search API with its own index that returns ranked web and news results as JSON, with optional page content.

At a glance

Provider
You.com (SuSea, Inc.)
Category
Search the web
Type
Hosted API
Pricing model
Pay as you go, prepaid credits; keyless pay-per-call by x402 or MPP2
Free tier
$10 credit on sign-up plus $90 after account verification, no card; 100 keyless MCP searches a day1
Authentication
API key in X-API-Key header; OAuth 2.1 for the MCP server; keyless via x402/MPP payment6
Connect via
REST API, hosted MCP server, local MCP package, Python SDK, agent skills8
Read from the provider's pages
2026-11-04
Pricing
  • Pricing model: Pay as you go, prepaid credits; Auto Top-Up optional
  • Free tier: $10 credit on sign-up and $90 more after verifying the account; free credits valid for 60 days; keyless MCP profile allows 100 you-search queries a day
  • Card required for free tier: No
Pricing in full →Tools
  • Official MCP server: Yes, remote and local
  • Address or package: https://api.you.com/mcp (keyless: https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free); local @youdotcom-oss/mcp
  • Number of tools (checked on free profile): 2 tools returned by tools/list on ?profile=free; docs list 6 on the full server
Tools in full →Authentication
  • Who creates the account: A person signs up on the Platform with Google, Apple, email one-time password or SSO; agents can instead pay per request with x402 or MPP and need no account
  • Where to get a key: https://you.com/platform/api-keys; keys are scoped per product and shown once
  • Other requirements: None for the free credits; $90 of the free credit needs account verification; optional per-key spending cap
Authentication in full →Setup
  • REST API: https://ydc-index.io/v1/search (search, contents); https://api.you.com (answer, research, finance, router)
  • MCP server: https://api.you.com/mcp
  • OpenAPI spec: https://you.com/docs/openapi.json
Setup in full →Limits
  • Results per call: 100 without extraction; 50 with highlights
  • Pagination: offset 0 to 9
  • Page crawl timeout: crawl_timeout 1 to 60 seconds, default 10
Limits in full →Privacy
  • Data location: Services are provided from the United States
  • Retention: Kept for the period necessary to deliver and secure the Services; no fixed period stated
  • Used for training: No: prompts, files and outputs are not used to train own models; LLM-provider contracts prohibit their training
Privacy in full →

Read from You.com (SuSea, Inc.)’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/search-the-web/you-com.md