You.com prices Deep queries $110/1K

You.com has put public dollar figures on the higher-end tiers of its Research API, giving developers a clearer view of what the company charges for deeper, source-backed web research. The company’s pricing page, available on May 15, lists Research API tiers that include Deep at $110 per 1,000 calls and Exhaustive at $500 per 1,000 calls, alongside a “$100 free credit to get started.” The pricing appears as part of You.com’s broader API menu, which also includes Search and Contents products. The company’s documentation says the Research API is designed to return grounded natural-language answers with inline citations by running multiple searches, reading sources and synthesizing results. ### Where do the new numbers appear? You.com’s public pricing page shows the company’s API catalog and its pay-as-you-go rates. (you.com) On that page, Search API is listed at $5 per 1,000 calls, Contents API at $1 per 1,000 pages, and Research API tiers beginning with Lite at $12 per 1,000 calls; the same page shows Deep at $110 per 1,000 calls and Exhaustive at $500 per 1,000 calls, plus $100 in free credit. The company’s quickstart page repeats the free-credit offer in separate documentation. That page says new users start with $100 in complimentary credits and no credit card is required. ### What is You.com selling under “Research”? You.com’s documentation describes the Research API as a product for questions that need more than a list of links. The overview page says the system runs multiple searches, cross-references sources and returns a Markdown-formatted answer with inline citations, rather than raw search results. (you.com) The same documentation says the product uses Search, Contents and Live News as retrieval tools. (you.com) It also says the system selects tools for sub-questions, evaluates sources for freshness, diversity and relevance, and can, at higher effort levels, run more than 1,000 reasoning turns and process up to 10 million tokens. ### How do “Deep” and “Exhaustive” fit into the product? (you.com) You.com’s docs say developers control how much work the system does with a `research_effort` setting. The company lists available effort levels including lite, standard, deep and exhaustive, and says higher effort levels run more searches and dig deeper into sources at the cost of longer response times. (you.com) The quickstart guide frames that tradeoff directly. It says developers can use lite for quick answers, standard for balance, and deep or exhaustive when thoroughness matters more than speed. ### Is this a new pricing move or part of a broader rollout? March 11, 2026, is when You.com separately announced lower pricing for its Search and Contents APIs. In that post, the company said Search fell to $5 per 1,000 calls and Contents to $1 per 1,000 pages, while “Research API pricing” was being kept unchanged. (you.com) That language suggests the higher-end Research rates were already part of You.com’s pricing structure before the current page was highlighted publicly. (you.com) The company’s current pricing page now places those figures alongside the rest of its API lineup in one location. That is an inference based on the March 11 post saying Research pricing was unchanged and the May 15 pricing page displaying the current rates. (you.com) ### What can developers do next? You.com’s docs say developers can create API keys through the company’s platform and use the same key across Search, Contents and Research products. The documentation also points users to SDKs, MCP integrations and REST access for implementation. The company’s quickstart page says new users can begin with the $100 complimentary credit, choose a `research_effort` level and test the Research API before moving to paid usage. (you.com 1) (you.com 2) (you.com 3)