You.com launches the Answer API, priced at its Search API rate
You.com added a new Answer API that returns a synthesized, citation-grounded answer in one call, priced at $5.00 per 1,000 calls — the same rate as its raw-results Search API — with 93.48% claimed accuracy on SimpleQA.
Four priced endpoints: Web Search ($5.00/1k calls), Contents ($1.00/1k pages), Research (effort-tiered $12-$1,200/1k), Finance Research (effort-tiered $110-$500/1k).
Five priced endpoints: adds Answer API ($5.00/1k calls, single-call search + synthesis); all other rates unchanged.
You.com’s pricing page now leads with a banner — “You.com announces the Answer API: grounded, cited answers powered by real-time web search” — introducing a fifth priced endpoint alongside Search, Contents, Research, and Finance Research. The Answer API collapses a search-and-synthesize workflow into a single call: it returns a synthesized, citation-grounded answer generated only from retrieved passages, using the same query operators as the Web Search API, and claims 93.48% accuracy on SimpleQA. Rather than pricing it as a premium synthesis product like the effort-tiered Research API, You.com priced it identically to the base Search API rate ($5.00 per 1,000 calls), and it carries the same $100 free-credit badge as every other endpoint.
The same capture also surfaced two billing-adjacent changes: the pricing-page subheader dropped its long-standing “No model training” claim in favor of “ZDR available,” and the API docs for the Web Search and Finance Research endpoints now describe machine payments — agents can pay per call in USDC from a funded wallet without an account, bypassing the $100 credit system entirely. Every other rate held steady: Search $5.00/1k calls (after the 100-calls/day free quota), Contents $1.00/1k pages, Research lite $12/standard $50/deep $100/exhaustive $450/Frontier $1,200, and Finance Research deep $110/exhaustive $500.
The Search, Contents, and Research API docs replaced the livecrawl parameter with an extraction object: extraction_mode 'full_page' for whole-page content (same behavior, same $1.00/1k-page rate) plus a new extraction_mode 'highlights' mode that returns only the passages relevant to the query, included in the base per-call rate at no extra charge. No prices moved: Search stayed $5.00/1k calls (free for the first 100/day), Contents/full-page extraction $1.00/1k pages, Research $12-$1,200/1k by effort tier, Finance Research $110/$500/1k. Machine payments (pay-per-call in USDC without an account) expanded from GET /v1/search alone to also cover both verbs of /v1/agents/search. The main you.com/pricing page's Contents API card was not updated to match — it still reads 'Accessible via Search API livecrawl parameter.' Read from live capture of you.com/pricing and the API docs.