You.com adds a 100-calls/day free tier to its Web Search API

You.com restructured the pricing card for its flagship Web Search API. Where the card previously led with a flat “$5.00 / 1k calls” rate, it now leads with “Free / 100 calls per day” and shows the $5.00-per-1,000-calls rate as what applies only after that daily allowance is used. Every other endpoint on the page held steady: Contents API $1.00/1k pages, Research API lite $12 through exhaustive $450 (Frontier remains $1,200, Contact Sales), and Finance Research API deep $110 / exhaustive $500.

The change has not yet propagated to the Search API’s own documentation page (you.com/docs/search/overview), which still describes a flat $5.00-per-1,000-calls rate with only the general $100 new-account credit mentioned — no reference to the new daily quota. That leaves the marketing pricing page and the technical docs temporarily out of sync, with the pricing page being the more current source.

Separately, the Research API documentation’s effort-level table added the previously-missing Frontier tier ($1,200 per 1,000 calls, requiring background: true and available only asynchronously), closing a gap the prior capture had flagged where Frontier appeared on the pricing page but not in the docs.