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.

Rate limits

Enterprise limits are set by contract. Responses carry X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset; 429 includes Retry-After.

Endpoint	Default limit (self-serve)
`/v1/search`	10 requests/second
`/v1/contents`	10 requests/second
`/v1/answer`	10 requests/second
`/v1/research`	10 requests/second
`/v1/finance_research`	5 requests/second
Free MCP profile	100 queries/day

Source3Rate limits

Other limits

Results per call: 100 without extraction; 50 with highlights12
Pagination: offset 0 to 911
Page crawl timeout: crawl_timeout 1 to 60 seconds, default 1012
Per-key spending cap: Optional dollar cap per key per billing period; reaching it returns 429 spend_cap_exceeded5
Tokens in highlights: total_max_tokens 1024 to 8192 (default 8192)12

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