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You.com

AI search engine with agents and an API.

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About

You.com (you.com) is the AI search engine: conversational answers with citations, AI agents for research, and a search API for developers.

Freemium — free tier for casual search, paid plans for heavy use and API access. The independent alternative to Google/Bing with an agent-native surface.

What it can do

  • Conversational AI search
  • Research agents
  • Search API
  • Cited answers
  • Freemium

Setup

  1. Search at you.com (free).
  2. For API access, sign up for a developer plan.
  3. Use agents for deep research tasks.

Prerequisites

Account for API/agents.

Use cases

automationchat

Works with

Generic APIAny agent (.md)

Trust score — 7/10

/10 trustMetrics-checked

Scored 7/10 (metrics tier). Established AI search with agents and API, but proprietary with provider-estimated adoption. Metrics tier.

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
7.0/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
7.0/10
Openness · license + docs
4.5/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
7.0/10
  • · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
  • · AI search engine + agents; no public repo — adoption estimated
  • · released 285 days ago
  • · manual review: You.com — AI search with agents and API; freemium; license: proprietary

Sources

Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.