You.com
Multi-mode AI search with agents for research and writing.
Multi-mode AI search with agents for research and writing.
You.com is Multi-mode AI search with agents for research and writing. Freemium, with paid plans from $15/mo.
About You.com
You.com is an AI search and productivity platform that blends conversational answers with a customizable feed of apps. Its ARI (Advanced Research and Insights) agent runs multi-step research over hundreds of sources and produces structured reports with citations, while the core chat lets users switch between leading models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others on a single subscription. Features include code generation with live previews, image generation, custom AI agents, file and URL grounding and an enterprise mode with private indexes and SSO. You.com targets knowledge workers, analysts and developers who want one interface to compare models, run deep research and keep work organized in projects. The company has shifted increasingly toward enterprise customers in 2024 and 2025 while keeping a generous consumer free tier.
You.com pros and cons
Hand-derived from the catalog data, strengths and trade-offs to weigh before signing up.
- Free tier available; paid plans from $15/mo
- Multi-model routing
- Research mode
- Custom agents
- No autonomous agent, handles single prompts, not multi-step workflows
- Competition is strong in this space, see Perplexity and NotebookLM for comparison
4 plans from You.com
Pulled from You.com’s public pricing page. Prices may change, verify on the vendor’s site before purchasing.
Search API
Web search API
- 1-100 results per call
- Up to 100 URLs included
- Includes News Search API
Contents API
Batch URL content extraction
- Clean Markdown or HTML
- Multiple URLs per call
- Accessible via livecrawl param
Research API
Cited research answers
- Source-backed answers
- Inline references
- Ranked #1 in DeepSearchQA
Finance Research API
Finance research deep tier
- Filings, macro, markets
- Derived calculations
- Built for financial workflows
You.com vs Search & Research
Side-by-side with the top 3 other search & research in this category.
| Picked from the top tools in search & research | Multi-mode AI search with agents for research and writing. | AI answer engine that cites sources for every claim. | Google's AI notebook that grounds answers in your own sources. | AI research assistant that automates systematic literature reviews. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STARTS AT | $15/mo | $20/mo | Free | $12/mo |
| PRICING | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| AI AGENT | No | No | No | No |
| EDITOR'S PICK | No | No | Yes | No |
| KEY FEATURES | Multi-model routing, Research mode, Custom agents | Cited answers, Focus modes, Pro Search | Audio Overviews, Source grounding, Study guides | Paper search across 125M, Data extraction tables, Notebooks |
| BEST FOR | Web search, Research, Writing | Web research, Fact-checking, Source discovery | Studying, Document analysis, Podcast generation | Systematic reviews, Data extraction, Meta-analysis |
| WORKS WITH | #search#agents#research | #search#research#citations | #notebook#research#rag | #academic#research#literature-review |
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