Price change

Research Lite raised to $12; Finance Research API launches

You.com pricing

You.com raises Research Lite to $12 per 1k and ships a dedicated Finance Research API, extending its 2026 API repricing.

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Research lite raised to $12; Finance Research API added

Current pricing: Search $5/1k, Contents $1/1k. Research API lite rose from $6.50 to $12/1k (standard $50, deep $100, exhaustive $450, Frontier >$2,000). A new Finance Research API was added on a dedicated financial index — deep $110, exhaustive $500/1k (#1 on FinSearchComp, 87.29%). $100 free credit, SOC 2, zero data retention. Consumer You Pro/Max plans no longer have a public pricing page. Read from live capture 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 $5.00 per 1,000 calls and the Contents API is $1.00 per 1,000 pages.

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Free tier
Yes
Commits
Available
Transparency
public
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You.com pricing history

  1. Jun 2026
    Research lite raised to $12; Finance Research API added
  2. Apr 2026
    Major price cuts: Search to $5, Contents to $1; page retitled
  3. Mar 2026
    Research API with effort tiers replaces the Agent APIs
  4. Feb 2026
    API CPM pricing held steady
  5. Oct 2025
    API platform launches at you.com/pricing (per-1k CPM)
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