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title: Billing
og:title: You.com Billing & Credits
og:description: Manage your You.com API billing, view usage and credits, add funds, and handle payment methods.
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## Credits overview

You.com uses a pay-as-you-go credit system for API access. You only pay for what you use.

All new accounts receive **\$100 in free API credits** to explore and test the APIs. No credit card required.

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## API Pricing

### Search API

| Pricing    | Details         |
| ---------- | --------------- |
| **\$5.00** | per 1,000 calls |

**What's included:**

* Web and news results in a single unified request
* Up to 100 results per call
* News endpoint at no extra cost
* Full page content via live crawl (HTML or Markdown)
* LLM-ready snippets with rich metadata
* Country and language targeting filters

### Contents API

| Pricing    | Details         |
| ---------- | --------------- |
| **\$1.00** | per 1,000 pages |

**What's included:**

* Batch multiple URLs per request
* Clean Markdown or raw HTML output
* Python SDK, MCP Server, and REST API access
* No browser automation or HTML parsing required

### Research API

Research effort tiers control the depth of analysis. Higher tiers allocate more compute for deeper reasoning and more sources.

| Tier         | Pricing      | Latency  | Use case                                         |
| ------------ | ------------ | -------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| `lite`       | **\$12/1k**  | \< 2s    | Quick factual lookups, simple searches           |
| `standard`   | **\$50/1k**  | \~10–30s | Balanced depth for most production use (default) |
| `deep`       | **\$100/1k** | \< 120s  | Complex multi-source research and synthesis      |
| `exhaustive` | **\$450/1k** | \< 300s  | Comprehensive analysis across dozens of sources  |

**What's included:**

* Cited, source-backed answers with inline references
* Multi-step search and synthesis pipeline
* Higher tiers = more sources, deeper reasoning, higher accuracy

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## Managing your account

### Viewing your usage and balance

To view your current credit balance and usage:

1. Sign in to [you.com/platform](https://you.com/platform)
2. Navigate to the billing section of your dashboard
3. View your remaining credits and usage history

### Adding credits

To add credits to your account:

1. Go to [you.com/platform](https://you.com/platform)
2. Navigate to the billing section
3. Select the amount you'd like to add and confirm payment

### Payment methods

You can add and manage payment methods from the billing section of your dashboard. You.com accepts major credit and debit cards.

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## Enterprise & Volume Pricing

### Volume discounts

Enjoy lower rates as your usage scales, without lengthy negotiations. Contact sales for custom rates based on your volume.

### Annual savings

Commit to annual usage for deeper discounts and predictable costs—ideal for production deployments.

### Enterprise features

**Zero Data Retention** — All queries and data can be automatically purged, giving you complete control over data storage and retention.

**SOC 2 Certified** — Our infrastructure is independently audited to ensure best-in-class data security, privacy, and availability.

**DPA-Ready** — Data Processing Agreements supported for enterprise compliance requirements.

**Custom QPS Limits** — Enterprise-grade concurrency with performance optimization for high-volume usage.

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## Questions & Support

For billing questions, custom pricing, or enterprise features, contact [api@you.com](mailto:api@you.com).