You.com MCP: The #1 AI Web Search API
You.com MCP: The #1 AI Web Search API Overview
Features
Your AI products need up-to-date, accurate information to provide trustworthy responses. You.com's APIs provide factual, up-to-date results giving your AI products direct access to current and relevant web and news information with verifiable source attribution. You.com's APIs deliver real-time, accurate, and relevant web and news data, enabling AI applications to seamlessly integrate current information from across the entire web at enterprise scale. Whether you're enhancing large language models (LLMs) or building custom AI agents, access the entire web with just a few lines of code.
You.com offers three core capabilities that this connector exposes to TotalAgility:
Search - Returns real-time, LLM-ready web and news results
Research- Multi-step reasoning with web research capabilities
Content - Retrieves HTML or Markdown content from any webpage
Benefits
Real-Time Intelligence: * Live web search with factual, up-to-date results * News coverage across major publishers * Real-time web data with citations * Structured data format optimized for AI consumption and processing Enterprise-Grade Performance: * 99.9% uptime SLA for mission-critical applications and production deployments * Proven at enterprise scale - currently serving 1+ billion queries monthly * Industry-leading performance across latency, accuracy, and reliability metrics
Technical Details
Inputs
Prerequisites
Before you begin, choose one of the two integration paths below. Each path has its own prerequisite.
Option A – MCP Server (no API key required)
You.com provides a free MCP server that can be used directly by compatible agents without needing an API key.
Option B – REST API (API key required)
To call the REST APIs you will need a valid You.com API key. There are two ways to obtain one:
Tier Details
Free Create a free account on the You.com platform. As of March 2025 this includes $100 in free credits.
Paid Purchase a paid plan for higher rate-limits and production usage.
