You.com Pricing Calculator
Updated August 2026Pure usage (per-1k-call metering with effort tiers)
You.com pricing: You.com pricing 2026: Search free to 100 calls/day then $5/1k, Contents $1/1k, Answer $5/1k, Research from $12/1k, Finance Research from $110/1k, plus $100 free credit. Use the free calculator below to enter your usage and get an instant all-in monthly estimate — including overages — and see which plan is cheapest for your needs.
How You.com prices: Pure usage (per-1k-call metering with effort tiers).
How You.com prices
Pure usage (per-1k-call metering with effort tiers)
Your usage
💡 First 100 calls/day free, then $5.00 / 1,000 calls — up to 100 web + news results per call
💡 $1.00 / 1,000 pages — full page content alongside search results
💡 $1.00 / 1,000 pages — fetch full text/markdown from known URLs
💡 $5.00 / 1,000 calls — single-call web search plus a synthesized, citation-grounded answer (93.48% accuracy on SimpleQA); launched August 2026
💡 Source-backed, cited answers across the open web
research_effort sets the per-call price; the Frontier tier is listed at $1,200/1k with a Contact Sales CTA.
💡 Financial questions on a dedicated finance index (#1 FinSearchComp)
Effort tier on the finance-optimized index.
Monthly Estimate
Pay as you go
$850.00
per month
Cost Breakdown
Annual
$10,200.00
Why Pay as you go — $850.00/mo
- Pay as you go at $850.00/mo.
- How we got there: 10K calls (Research API calls) × 50 $/1k calls (Research effort) × 0 (×) = 500 $.
- How we got there: 0 calls (Finance Research API calls) × 110 $/1k calls (Finance Research effort) × 0 (×) = 0 $.
- Research API (500 $ × $1) is 59% of your bill — the lever that matters most.
- Need less? Research effort: Lite — $12 / 1k drops you to Pay as you go at $470.00/mo.
Budget range
Plan for usage swings, not just today's estimate.
Conservative
$725.00
25K calls/mo
Expected
$850.00
50K calls/mo
Aggressive
$1,100.00
100K calls/mo
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You.com pricing — frequently asked questions
How much does the You.com Search API cost? ▼
As of the 2026-07-29 pricing-page capture, the You.com Search API is free for the first 100 calls per day, then $5.00 per 1,000 calls (up to 100 results per call). Live-crawled full page content via the livecrawl parameter is billed separately at $1.00 per 1,000 pages. Note: the API docs' pricing section has not yet been updated to mention the daily free quota.
How is the You.com Research API priced? ▼
The Research API is metered per 1,000 calls by research-effort tier: lite $12, standard $50 (default), deep $100, exhaustive $450, and Frontier $1,200 (Contact Sales). The four self-serve tiers are also documented in the Research API docs; Frontier appears only on the pricing page.
Is there a free tier on You.com's API? ▼
Yes. Every new You.com API account receives $100 in free credit to get started, with no minimums and no platform fee — you only pay for the calls and pages you use.
How much did You Pro cost, and does You.com still sell it? ▼
Historically (recovered from Wayback snapshots of you.com/plans) You Pro was $20/month or $15 billed annually, with a $30/month Team plan that was replaced by a $200/month Max plan in September 2025. Today the public pricing page covers only the developer APIs; the consumer plans no longer have a public pricing page and are available through the in-app upgrade flow.
Is this You.com pricing calculator free and accurate? ▼
Yes — it's completely free with no signup. It uses the latest publicly available You.com pricing (verified August 2026). Actual costs may vary with volume discounts or enterprise terms — always confirm on You.com's official pricing page.