Web Search APIs, priced per call
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Free
- No API key, no account, no credit card
- 100 Web Search API queries/day via MCP
- Sign up only when you need more
Production workloads
Pay as you go
- No minimums, no seats, no platform fee
- All endpoints, SDKs and MCP
- Auto top-up so jobs never stall
Enterprise teams
Custom
- Zero Data Retention, SOC 2, DPA-ready
- Custom QPS and dedicated capacity
- SLA-backed support
Powering web search for leading enterprises
APIs and features
All built on the same real-time index. Pick based on how much you want to build yourself.
Web Search
You get the sources and do the reasoning.
Endpoint
Latency
Price
Real-time web and news results, optimized for programmatic access in AI applications.
Live search through the MCP server, no API key—up to 100 queries a day. Prototype or drop live search into an agent before committing.
Latency
p50 ~0.4s
Price
Free
Full endpoint access: Highlights, Knowledge, extraction, and domain filters. Built for production traffic at scale.
Latency
p50 ~0.4s
Price
$5
/1k calls
Give it URLs you already have, get back clean Markdown or HTML per page. Use it when you know which pages you want and just need them parsed, not searched.
Latency
1-10s per page
Price
$1
/1k Pages
Agentic Research
We do the reasoning and hand back the answer.
Endpoint
Latency
Price
One call turns a question into a cited answer with the sources it used. Choose this over Web Search when you want the answer written for you, not a list of links to synthesize yourself.
Latency
p50 ~2.7s
Price
$5
/1k calls
Multi-step research on the open web. It plans, searches repeatedly, reads full pages, and cross-references before answering. One research_effort parameter tunes cost and depth across five levels:
Simple factual lookups in a single pass. No structured output.
Latency
Under 2s
Price
$12
/1k calls
Balanced depth for most production research
Latency
10-30s
Price
$50
/1k calls
Complex questions that span several sources and need cross-referencing.
Latency
Under 2min
Price
$100
/1k calls
High-stakes questions where claims get verified across dozens of sources.
Latency
Under 5min
Price
$450
/1k calls
Research too long to finish inside a request. Background mode only.
Latency
~5min
Price
$1,200
/1k calls
The Research engine tuned for financial questions, at the same price and latency. Use it for company, market, and competitive analysis that needs grounded numbers.
Earnings summaries, competitive benchmarking, and multi-quarter trends.
Latency
Under 2 min
Price
$110
/1k calls
Full 10-K analysis, due diligence, and cross-market research.
Latency
Under 5 min
Price
$500
/1k calls
Decide what to build, then find API.
Pick what you're building. We'll point you to the endpoint that fits, what it costs, and when to reach for something else.
Web Search
Web Search API
$5
/1k calls
Ranked web and news results your model reads and reasons over. You keep full control of synthesis — ideal for RAG.
$100 free credit = 20,000 searches
Enterprise-ready
Get custom pricing, higher rate limits, enterprise security, and dedicated support.
ZDR available
All queries and data can be automatically purged—giving you complete control over what's stored and for how long.
SOC 2 certified
Our infrastructure is independently audited to ensure best-in-class data security, privacy, and availability.
DPA-ready
Designed to seamlessly accommodate Data Processing Agreements.
CCPA
Compliant with California Consumer Privacy Act requirements for data handling and consumer rights.
Custom QPS limits
Enterprise-grade concurrency with performance optimization for high-volume usage available on request.
Dedicated support
Direct access to our engineering team for onboarding, optimization, and priority issue resolution.
The reliability and latency improvements when using You.com were decisive factors. We cut P50 web search latency from over five seconds to sub-one second and pushed our success rate to three 9s or higher.
Jonathan Lucuix-Andre
Technical Staff, Factory