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You.com pricing
You.com publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 29 August 2026, You.com pricing is free across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
You.com plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
| Pay-as-you-go | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 100 web search api queries/day, $100 free credit.
Pay-as-you-go
On requestOver Free, this tier adds:
- Web Search API $5 per 1,000 calls
- Contents API $1 per 1,000 pages
- Answer API $5 per 1,000 calls
- Research API $12 per 1,000 calls
Where You.com stops being free
Free, Free
- 100 Web Search API queries/day
- $100 free credit
No paid tier on record
You.com lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full You.com feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
core
- Web Search API
- Contents API
- Answer API
- Research API
security
- Zero data retention
- SOC 2 certification
People bring You.com in for grounding llm chatbots with live web data, building ai research agents, adding cited web answers to products, financial research automation. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to You.com are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in AI
Too few ai tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You.com (this page) | Free | usage-based | - | |
| Avathon | On request | quote | - | vs You.com |
| C3 AI Suite | On request | quote | - | vs You.com |
| Rev | Free | Per minute for human work, per seat per month for AI | - | vs You.com |
| Veritone | On request | quote | - | vs You.com |
| Verbit | $24/month | Per month by transcription hours | - | vs You.com |
| LatchBio | On request | quote | - | vs You.com |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the You.com badges page.
Before you pay for You.com
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
You.com runs on web, api, and is published by You.com. The full record is on the You.com review, and the rest of the category is under best ai tools.
You.com pricing questions
- How much does You.com cost?
- You.com publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Pay-as-you-go. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does You.com have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 100 web search api queries/day, $100 free credit.
- What is the difference between Free and Pay-as-you-go on You.com?
- Pay-as-you-go costs On request against Free, and adds web search api $5 per 1,000 calls, contents api $1 per 1,000 pages, answer api $5 per 1,000 calls, research api $12 per 1,000 calls.
- Which ai tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 ai tools listed alongside You.com have a free tier: Rev, AutoGen, Vellum.
- What am I actually paying for with You.com?
- The record lists 6 features across 2 areas: core, security. In practice it is brought in for grounding llm chatbots with live web data, building ai research agents, adding cited web answers to products.
- Does You.com charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these You.com prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare You.com against before paying?
- The closest ai tools in this directory are Avathon, C3 AI Suite, Rev, Veritone. Each has a side-by-side comparison with You.com covering price, platforms and features.