You.com search API pricing.
Prices checked
You.com Answer API costs $5 per 1,000 searches when you make 1,000 a month and $5 at 100,000, checked .
At 1,000 searches a month
You.com
Answer API · pay as you go
What 1,000 searches cost you, bought the cheapest way You.com sells them.
At 100,000 a month
You.com
pay as you go
The same price per search at any volume: no discount for more.
Every way You.com sells it
Answer API, Answers
$5 per 1,000 searches at 1,000 a month; $5 per 1,000 searches at 100,000.
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Pay as you go
pay as you go
$5/1k searches
How each price is read
- A written answer with its sources, per call.
- Web and news results with highlights of each page's text.
- A $100 credit once; up to 100 searches a day through the MCP server need no key.
How we count
Each price is per 1,000 searches when you make 1,000 or 100,000 searches a month and buy them the cheapest way that provider sells: pay as you go, the plan that covers them with its overage, or a pack spread over the months it lasts. A free allowance is not subtracted; free tiers are listed on their own.
A free tier is a limit, not a price: it is listed on every page and called the cheapest on none. A price read for the first time, or that moved a lot, is marked while a second reading checks it.
Similar APIs
Other answer APIs, cheapest first. Each percentage is against You.com's $5 per 1,000 searches at 1,000 searches a month.
Frequently asked
- How much does the You.com search API cost?
- $5 per 1,000 searches for Answer API when you make 1,000 a month (pay as you go), and $5 per 1,000 searches at 100,000 a month (pay as you go), checked 21 Oct 2026. Tax is extra.
- Does You.com have a free tier?
- Yes. Web Search API: 20,000 once free. A free tier is a limit, not a price: it is listed on every page and called the cheapest on none.
- What does a You.com search return?
- Answers: A written answer with its sources, from one call. Own index: Results from the provider's own web index, built for a model to read, most with the page's text.
- What is cheaper than You.com?
- Nothing of the same kind is cheaper at 1,000 searches a month today.
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