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Used to power AI systems, AI Agents, research tools, data pipelines, and more, You.com's Research API is a single API call that researches a question and returns a complete, cited answer. Leveraging AI, the API reads multiple sources, cross-references what it finds, and synthesizes everything into a structured response with inline citations.<br>Most applications that need web-grounded answers today require building a pipeline: search for results, fetch and parse pages, feed content to an LLM, handle citations. The Research API replaces that pipeline. You send a question, set a research effort level, and get back a Markdown-formatted answer with numbered citations tied to sources, ready to render or feed downstream. There is no additional parsing, ranking, or synthesis required on your end.
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How It Works
The Research API runs an autonomous reasoning loop that scales with the complexity of the question. It plans its own search strategy, breaks the question into sub-questions, and manages context across hundreds or thousands of reasoning steps. At the highest effort levels, a single query can run more than 1,000 reasoning turns and process up to 10 million tokens, well beyond what any single LLM context window can hold.
Configurable Research Depth
The `research_effort` parameter controls how much compute the API allocates to a query. Higher effort means more searches, deeper source reading, and more cross-referencing at the cost of longer response times. Four tiers are available: `lite`, `standard`, `deep`, and `exhaustive`. Pricing is fixed per tier.
Use Cases
- Research automation: Replace manual research workflows with an API call that returns a cited, synthesized answer.
- Question answering: Power internal or customer-facing Q&A with grounded, multi-source responses.
- Due diligence and compliance: Synthesize regulatory, financial, or competitive intelligence into citation-backed briefs.
- Content generation: Generate cited drafts grounded in real-time sources across any domain.
Enterprise
- 99.99% uptime
- SOC2-certified infrastructure with zero data retention
- You.com serves 1B+ queries monthly across 3,000+ enterprise customers
Highlights
- - **Synthesized answers, not search results**: Returns a structured, cited response to complex questions your application would otherwise have to research itself.<br>- **Configurable depth**: Four effort tiers balance latency, accuracy, and cost for any use case.<br>- **Real-time and cited**: Answers are grounded in current sources with full traceability via inline citations.<br>- **Enterprise-ready**: SOC2-certified, zero data retention, 99.99% uptime.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/unit |
|---|---|---|
Lite | $12.00 per 1,000 Research API Calls (quick factual lookups, simple searches) | $12.00 |
Standard | $50.00 per 1,000 Research API Calls (balanced depth for most production use - default) | $50.00 |
Deep | $100.00 per 1,000 Research API Calls (complex multi-source research and synthesis) | $100.00 |
Exhaustive | $450.00 per 1,000 Research API Calls (comprehensive analysis across dozens of sources) | $450.00 |
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Prerequisites You need a You.com API key. Get one at you.com/platform.
Getting Started You.com works wherever your agents run. Pick the integration that matches how you're already building.
Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, or any MCP client -> MCP Server -> Zero-config, no API key required to start
Python -> Python SDK -> pip install youdotcom
TypeScript / Node.js -> TypeScript SDK -> npm install @youdotcom-oss/sdk
Claude Agent SDK or Claude.ai -> Skills -> Drop-in web search for Claude
LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Vercel AI SDK -> Framework integrations -> Native tools and retrievers, no wrapper code
n8n, Zapier -> Automation platforms -> No-code web search across 8,000+ apps
Every integration wraps the same three APIs: Search (live web and news results), Contents (full page extraction), and Research (multi-step synthesis). One API key works across all of them.
Quick example (Python) import os from youdotcom import You
you = You(api_key_auth=os.environ["YDC_API_KEY"]) response = you.research(input="What are the latest breakthroughs in quantum computing?") print(response.output.content) # markdown with inline citations print(response.output.sources) # list of sources used
For the full quickstart, walkthroughs, and code examples across all integration patterns, see the quickstart guide and the SDKs and tools overview.
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