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Major price cuts — Search to $5, Contents to $1

You.com pricing

You.com slashes API prices, dropping Search to $5/1k and Contents to $1/1k, and retitles its pricing page.

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Major price cuts: Search to $5, Contents to $1; page retitled

The page was retitled 'Web Search API Pricing' and consolidated to three cards. Search API dropped from $6.25/$8.00 to a flat $5.00/1k (1–100 results, news + livecrawl included at no extra charge); Contents API dropped from $10 to $1.00/1k pages; Research API lite shown at $6.50/1k with the lite/standard/deep/exhaustive/frontier tabs. Read from Wayback snapshot of you.com/pricing.

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You.com prices its developer platform on pure usage with no seats or platform fee: the Search API is free for the first 100 calls/day then $5.00 per 1,000 calls, and the Contents API is $1.00 per 1,000 pages.

Free tier
Yes
Commits
Available
Transparency
public

You.com pricing history

  1. Aug 2026
    Livecrawl parameter renamed to extraction_mode; machine payments extend to Agent Search
  2. Aug 2026
    Answer API launches: single-call search + synthesis at $5/1k calls
  3. Jul 2026
    Web Search API adds a 100-calls/day free tier; Research docs add Frontier
  4. Jul 2026
    Frontier gets a firm price: >$2,000 becomes $1,200 / 1k calls
  5. Jun 2026
    Research lite raised to $12; Finance Research API added
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