You.com: The API Layer for AI

The way businesses use information is being fundamentally reimagined in the age of AI. You.com believes that successful business adoption of agentic AI requires a foundation that connects agents, LLMs, the real-time internet, and internal data. Today we're releasing our latest APIs, core elements of our enterprise AI platform.

Today, we’re announcing:

• Unified Web & News Search API: One endpoint for the freshest, most grounded web and news data—no more juggling multiple endpoints or worrying about coverage gaps.
• API Management Console: Self-serve provisioning, analytics, and unified billing for all your search and data needs.
• Comprehensive Benchmarking Study with a methodology using industry standards that showcases You.com’s outperformance of legacy and emerging search APIs on accuracy, freshness, latency, and cost.
  
  

Why the World Needs a New API Platform for AI

Traditional Search APIs weren’t built for AI. They’re slow, shallow, expensive, and increasingly unreliable—especially as major indexes like Bing are being sunset and Google restricts access to its full web data. Scraping search engine results pages (SERPs) is fragile and risky, while emerging vendors lack the scale, coverage, and reliability that enterprise AI adoption requires.

You.com is designed from the ground up for LLM-powered agents, copilots, research tools, and next-gen applications that need real-time, factual, and citation-ready data at scale.

What Sets You.com Apart

• LLM-First Design: Our APIs return long-form, extractive snippets—grounded in the body of the page, not just meta tags—making them ideal for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic workflows.
• Speed & Accuracy: Built for real-time use cases, our APIs deliver low-latency, high-accuracy results, powering tight feedback loops for your agents & applications.
• Composable & Flexible: Choose your LLM, data depth, and integration style. Our APIs are designed to fit seamlessly into your stack.
• Trusted Results: Every result is factual, privacy-conscious, and transparently sourced—so your users can trust what they see.

We’re already powering 1B+ API calls per month for innovators like Amazon, Databricks, Harvey, and thousands more.

Why You.com's Unify Web & News Search

In today’s fast-moving world, your AI applications need more than just static web results—they need real-time, trustworthy news and web data, unified in a single, reliable service. Whether you’re building a chatbot, a research agent, or a business intelligence tool, your users expect answers that are both accurate and up-to-the-minute.

You.com’s Unified Web & News Search API delivers exactly that:

• One API, all the data: Seamlessly blend web and news search, including direct access to breaking news from hundreds of top publishers.
• Long, extractive snippets: Get rich, citation-ready context for every result—perfect for LLMs and agentic workflows.
• Real-time freshness: Answer questions about recent events with industry-leading recency and semantic accuracy.
• Enterprise reliability: Built for scale, with robust uptime, unified billing, and transparent analytics.

No more stitching together multiple APIs or worrying about missing the latest headlines. With You.com, you get the latest and most grounded news on top of a reliable, production-grade search service.

New Simplified API Management Console

Managing APIs at scale shouldn’t be a headache. Our new API Management Console gives you:

• Self-serve provisioning: Instantly generate and manage API keys.
• Usage analytics: Monitor calls, latency, and cost in real time.
• Unified billing: One credit system for all APIs—web, news, image, and more.
• Role-based access: Fine-grained controls for teams and enterprise security.

Scale confidently, track usage, and optimize spend—all from a single dashboard.

Benchmarking: Why You.com Outperforms the Competition

Choosing a search API isn’t just about accuracy—it’s about the right trade-offs between accuracy, latency, cost, and freshness. Our latest benchmarking study puts You.com in a league of it’s own:

• Accuracy: 77.8% on SimpleQA factual questions—outperforming Google (SerpAPI), Bing, and Exa.
• Freshness: Best-in-class F1 score for answering recent and time-sensitive questions.
• Latency: Our API consistently responds faster, without compromising quality (p50: 445ms).
• Cost: We deliver these results at a lower cost and token usage.

Our benchmarks show that You.com consistently delivers high accuracy at low latency and cost, and excels at providing up-to-date information for LLM applications. For any use case where search quality and freshness matter—such as chatbots, assistants, or research tools—You.com is the best choice to ensure your users get the most accurate, relevant, and up-to-date results.

Leading innovators are already building on You.com APIs:

• DuckDuckGo: Serve breaking news to millions of US users.
• Databricks: Enables enterprise agentic workflows with real-time web access.
• Harvey: Delivers complex, cited answers across legal, regulatory, and tax domains.

How You Can Get Started

Power your AI agents with the fastest, most accurate, and freshest search results at a fraction of the cost. You.com’s APIs give you the ability to explore what is truly possible: 

• Coding Agents: Enable coding agents to access the latest code repositories and developer documents.
• Document Search: Surface answers to complex research questions across multiple domains in, for example, legal, regulatory, and tax with accurate citations.
• Workflow Integration: Incorporate this API’s real-time web index into any enterprise agent workflows.

Our APIs are live and available for you to take a test run today. We’re onboarding select partners for deeper integrations and advanced capabilities—including full-page crawl, custom agents, and more.

Check out our benchmark report to see why You.com is the best API platform for AI-native applications!

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