You.com

You.com is the trading name of SuSea, Inc., a United States company. Its website now leads with search and inference infrastructure for AI developers rather than with a consumer chat page. The front page offers a Web Search API, a Contents API, an Answer API, a Research API, a Finance Research API and a newer Inference Router that routes requests to open-weight models through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

A Sign in link for the chat product remains, but the pricing page covers only APIs. Developers can use the Web Search API through an MCP server without an account, up to 100 queries a day. The company says all APIs draw on the same real-time index. Terms and conditions are published for the website and apps, and enterprise buyers can request a data processing addendum.

• Web Search API. Returns real-time web and news results for programmatic use. The standard endpoint adds highlights, knowledge, extraction and domain filters, with a median latency of about 0.4 seconds as the vendor states.
• Contents API. Takes URLs you already hold and returns clean Markdown or HTML for each page. It is billed per page returned and suits cases where you know which pages to parse.
• Answer API. One call turns a question into a cited answer along with the sources used. The vendor puts median latency near 2.7 seconds and suggests it when you want text written for you.
• Research API. Runs multi-step research that plans, searches repeatedly and cross-references pages. A research_effort setting picks one of five levels, from Lite to Frontier, trading cost and depth against time.
• Finance Research API. A variant tuned for financial questions, with Deep and Exhaustive levels aimed at earnings summaries, competitive benchmarks and long filing analysis.
• Inference Router. Serves open-weight models from several providers through a single API, with automatic failover and a stated 99.9 percent uptime target. Pricing varies by model.
• MCP server. Lets agents call live web search without an API key within the free allowance. The pricing page says the MCP server is covered by the same plan structure, with details in its FAQ.

• A developer building a RAG assistant. Calls the Web Search API to fetch ranked results and passes them to their own model, keeping full control of the answer. The prototype can start on the keyless MCP allowance.
• A product team adding cited answers. Uses the Answer API so a question returns an answer with sources in one request, rather than assembling search, reading and summarising stages by hand.
• An analyst automating company research. Runs the Finance Research API at a deeper level for competitive benchmarking or filings review, accepting a wait of up to a few minutes per question.

The pricing page says you can start with no API key, no account and no credit card by using the MCP server, which allows 100 Web Search API queries per day. When you need more, sign up for an API key; the page says a $10 free credit equals 2,000 searches.

Production use is pay as you go, with no minimums, seats or platform fee, and auto top-up so jobs do not stall. Documentation, SDKs, an interactive demo and an onboarding prompt are linked from the home page. Enterprise teams contact sales for custom limits. Setup time is not stated, though the endpoints are standard HTTP calls.

SuSea, Inc. trades as you.com, and its front page now sells web search APIs priced per thousand calls, with a keyless allowance of 100 queries a day.

A sign-in link for the chat product remains, and the terms describe monthly or annual subscriptions, but we found no chat plan or price. Treat it as a developer search service first, and an assistant second.

The AI chatbots and assistants list places You.com 12 of 14: it follows Meta AI and comes before Strawberry. No numeric score is attached; established products follow the challengers in their ranked order.

Counting headquarters, 6 out of 14 sit in North America; for You.com that is the United States.

The company offers zero data retention and a DPA to enterprise customers.

SuSea, Inc.

operates the service under its terms.

Pricing as recorded: API per call published; chat pricing not found on its site.

Prices on the pricing page are per thousand calls. Web Search free tier: 100 queries a day via MCP. Web Search standard: $5 per 1,000 calls. Contents: $1 per 1,000 pages. Answer API: $5 per 1,000 calls. Research API: Lite $12, Standard $50, Deep $100, Exhaustive $450 and Frontier $1,200 per 1,000 calls. Finance Research Deep $110 and Exhaustive $500 per 1,000 calls. Inference Router prices vary by model. Enterprise pricing is custom. A call is one request, whatever it returns. Chat or consumer plan prices were not found on the site.

Basis: you.com, read for the Best AI Chatbots and Assistants in 2026 guide (reviewed 6 November 2026).

The vendor lists SOC 2 certification, CCPA compliance and DPA readiness, and says zero data retention is available so queries and data can be purged automatically. The Inference Router page mentions zero data retention and US-hosted models.

The terms state the company is based in the United States, services are provided from the United States, and California law applies with courts in San Francisco. EU hosting is not stated on the pages read.

Integrations the vendor names (8):

• MCP server
• OpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint
• Agent skills
• Kimi models
• DeepSeek models
• GLM models
• SDKs
• Developer docs

Also in our records:

• The front page is now an API product, so a buyer looking for a chat assistant finds no price.
• Ecosystem tags in our records: API focus.

Shared tags and a similar price model decide who is listed here; where none match, the neighbours in the ranking fill in.

• Perplexity (#2 of 14): Best for: Researchers who want every answer shown with its sources and links.
• Claude (#3 of 14): Not for: buyers who need invoicing terms on the individual plans. Anthropic assistant with Free, Pro and Max plans and self-service data export.
• Poe (#5 of 14): Quora platform that puts many third-party models behind one account. Watch out: usage is measured in points that cannot be refunded or cashed out, which makes the monthly cost hard to predict. (United States)
• Microsoft Copilot (#10 of 14): Microsoft assistant sold inside Microsoft 365 plans and as a business add-on. Watch out: consumer terms do not apply to work or school accounts, so staff signing in with those accounts follow other rules.

Read from the vendor’s own pages on 5 November 2026.

• you.com: Product overview, Inference Router, ZDR
• you.com/pricing: Per-call prices, free tier, enterprise, certifications
• you.com/terms: Company identity, US provision, governing law, payments

We test for four things rather than for features: setup time, price in practice, exit and audience. Here that gives You.com the #12 position in a list of 14. Details: how we rank software.