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.

Billing

Pricing model: Pay as you go, prepaid credits; Auto Top-Up optional2
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 day1
Card required for free tier: No1
Minimum spend: None1
Billing period: Not published
Credit expiry: Free signup credits expire after 60 days; purchased credits do not expire while the account is active1

Prices

Web Search API is $5.00 per 1,000 calls (flat, up to 100 results per call), so $5.00 per 1,000 requests. Full page extraction adds $1.00 per 1,000 pages crawled live. Default extraction_source is blend; advertised price excludes extraction.

Item	$ per 1,000 requests
Web Search API call (default, snippets)	$5.00
Web Search with `extraction_mode: "full_page"`, per page crawled live (added to the call)	+$1.00 per 1,000 pages; cached pages free
Web Search by x402 machine payment	$5.00 ($0.005 per call)
Web Search by MPP machine payment	$10.00 ($0.01 per call)
Contents API	$1.00 per 1,000 pages
Answer API	$5.00

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Other charges

Full page extraction: $1.00 per 1,000 pages fetched live; pages served from cache are free2
Deprecated livecrawl on machine payments: Adds $0.001 per result9
Out of credits: API calls return 402 Payment Required1
Enterprise: Custom rates, annual commitments, volume discounts via sales2

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