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You.com Crawling

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you.com/pricing · search API · crawler-scraper/youdotcom · JSON · compare

Free tier	100 Web Search API queries a day through the hosted MCP route, with no API key, no account and no credit card unit requests; metered on request-count
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable: the unit is a query
Retention	the keyless daily allowance resets daily
Egress	not applicable: JSON answers
Identity	anonymous the free route states no key, no account and no credit card; the paid route is an account
Limits	request-rate 100 queries a day keyless through MCP; USD 5 per 1,000 calls on the paid path source request-rate USD 100 credit with a 60-day expiry, per the platform research report source
Binding	request-rate
Interface	rest, rest REST Web Search API and a hosted MCP server; the keyless route is MCP only
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The one anonymous search leg a reader can use before registering anywhere
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The keyless route is the only one in this topic with a stated daily number and no identity at all. It is MCP, not a plain HTTP search endpoint, so it needs an MCP client.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:request-rate 1000.0 calls `$.limits[1].value` limit:request-rate 100.0 credit

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	you.com/pricing	Free: no API key, no account, no credit card, 100 Web Search API queries a day via MCP; pay as you go with no minimums; a call is USD 5 per 1,000

Unknown or withheld values (2)

$.reliability_note none-observed
$.tooling not-stated

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