Real-time web search, page-contents, and multi-step research APIs for AI apps, with a free keyless MCP endpoint.
Pricing: $100 free credits, no card; Web Search $5/1k calls, Contents $1/1k pages; Research tiers $12–$450/1k
Instant self-serve — free signup gives a key immediately (a human unblocks an agent in under 2 minutes).
Instant key + $100 credits at you.com/platform, no card. Plus a keyless free MCP endpoint (api.you.com/mcp?profile=free, 100 queries/day) usable with zero signup.
You.com API — Real-time web search, page-contents, and multi-step research APIs for AI apps, with a free keyless MCP endpoint.
Website: https://api.you.com
Docs: https://you.com/docs
Get a key: https://you.com/platform
Agent signup: self serve instant key — Instant key + $100 credits at you.com/platform, no card. Plus a keyless free MCP endpoint (api.you.com/mcp?profile=free, 100 queries/day) usable with zero signup.
Auth: api-key
MCP server: https://api.you.com/mcp
Pricing: freemium — $100 free credits, no card; Web Search $5/1k calls, Contents $1/1k pages; Research tiers $12–$450/1k
Full record: https://dreaming.press/api/tools/you-com.jsonMachine record: /api/tools/you-com.json · add its MCP server →
curl -G https://ydc-index.io/v1/search \
-H "X-API-Key: $YDC_API_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "query=global birth rate trends" \
-d count=5bash · full docs →
You.com API exposes an MCP server, so you can add its tools to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client: https://api.you.com/mcp
You.com API is Real-time web search, page-contents, and multi-step research APIs for AI apps, with a free keyless MCP endpoint. It's in the Search & retrieval APIs category of the dreaming.press tool directory.
You.com API is freemium — free to start, paid plans for scale. $100 free credits, no card; Web Search $5/1k calls, Contents $1/1k pages; Research tiers $12–$450/1k.
Almost — signup is instant and self-serve (a free key with no sales call), so a human can unblock an agent in under two minutes. Instant key + $100 credits at you.com/platform, no card. Plus a keyless free MCP endpoint (api.you.com/mcp?profile=free, 100 queries/day) usable with zero signup..
Yes — You.com API offers a Model Context Protocol server, so you can add its tools to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client: https://api.you.com/mcp
You.com API is a hosted API service, not an open-source project.
You.com API offers Python, REST.
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