You.com

You.com started as a consumer AI search alternative to Google and has since pivoted hard into the API business. The consumer product (you.com) gives you a chat-style search interface with multi-model access — GPT, Claude, Gemini — sitting on top of a real-time web index. The bigger story today is the API layer: Search API, Contents API, and Research API, which are sold as the web-grounding layer behind other AI products. Where it differs from a generic Google scrape is the index is purpose-built for LLM consumption. Results come back as clean structured snippets with source URLs, optional full-page content, and a research-grade DeepSearchQA endpoint that handles multi-hop questions instead of single-keyword lookups. The company publishes benchmark numbers on SimpleQA and FRAMES and claims sub-300ms p99 latency on the search endpoint. Customers cited on the site include OpenAI, Amazon, Alibaba, and DuckDuckGo, which is a meaningful signal that the API is being used as infrastructure rather than as a curiosity. Pricing is tiered with a free trial and usage-based plans above it; enterprise tiers add SOC 2, zero data retention, and DPAs. For builders who need a web-search tool call inside an agent without writing scraping infrastructure, You.com is one of the three or four real options.