you-com capabilities

Four distinct task-optimised modes for interacting with You.com: Express for fast web-grounded answers, Compute for multi-step coding/math/data tasks with code execution, Research for in-depth topic analysis with extensive citations, and Create for AI image generation.

ARI (Advanced Research & Insights) is You.com's autonomous deep-research agent that processes up to 400+ sources simultaneously, synthesises multi-page reports with inline citations, and supports human-in-the-loop editing at each step. Benchmarked at a 76% win rate over OpenAI Deep Research on consultant/investment research tasks.

AI-generated answers grounded in real-time web retrieval, with every claim linked to a numbered inline citation pointing to the source URL. Designed to prevent hallucinations by anchoring responses to retrieved documents rather than model training data alone.

Users can create and share their own AI agents by selecting a base model, writing custom instructions (system prompt), and enabling specific capabilities such as live web access and personalisation. Over 50,000 custom agents have been created on the platform.

You.com exposes four REST APIs for developers to embed real-time web intelligence into AI applications: Search API (LLM-ready structured web/news results), Contents API (clean Markdown/HTML extraction from URLs), Research API (multi-step citation-backed synthesis at configurable depth), and Finance Research API (filings, macro, market data).

Users can attach files — PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets, code files, images, and more — to queries so the AI can analyse or reason over the content. Cloud storage imports (Google Drive, OneDrive/SharePoint) are also supported.

You.com provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents in IDEs and agentic frameworks real-time web search, content extraction, research synthesis, and finance data — without needing to build custom search integrations.

Users can choose from 20+ AI models across providers — including OpenAI (GPT-4o and successors), Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), and Meta (Llama) — to respond to a given query or power a custom agent. Allows comparison of model outputs for the same prompt.

You.com offers tiered consumer/team subscriptions (Free, Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise) and a separate pay-as-you-go API platform. Plans differ in model access, ARI research quotas, file upload limits, context window size, and data-privacy controls.