You.com Research
You.com's research-agent mode — multi-step web research + synthesis. You.com parent: $99M Series B Aug-2024 ($700M val; Georgian + NEA + Salesforce Ventures). Founded by Richard Socher (ex-Salesforce Chief Scientist). As of Oct 2026 You.com positions itself as search and inference APIs for AI, and research is offered as a Research API; the consumer /research page now requires sign-in.
Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 22 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Web-research AI agent vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Created
- 2024 (Research mode) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Research API usage-based: Lite $12, Standard $50, Deep $100, Exhaustive $450 per 1k calls (plus a Frontier tier) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- SDK languages
- python, rest vendor fix
- Protocols
- mcp-server vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: enterprise web research with privacy controls
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Richard Socher founder pedigree; Georgian + Salesforce-backed; agent-mode shipped early.
Cons
Lower mindshare than Perplexity; consumer + enterprise positioning split.
Claims & capabilities
$99M Series B Aug-2024 ($700M val); founded by ex-Salesforce CS Richard Socher; research-agent mode launched 2024
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- not applicable — wrong section
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- yes — You.com MCP server (live search via MCP; up to 100 free queries/day without an API key)
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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Sources (21 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Web-research AI agent vendor
- What it does & what's distinct You.com's research-agent mode — multi-step web research + synthesis. You.com parent: $99… vendor
- Claims / benefits $99M Series B Aug-2024 ($700M val); founded by ex-Salesforce CS Richard Socher; research… vendor
- Created 2024 (Research mode) vendor
- Funding $99M Series B Aug-2024 ($700M val; Georgian + NEA + Salesforce Ventures) vendor
- Customers / scale $700M val SaaS — research mode vendor
- Pricing Research API usage-based: Lite $12, Standard $50, Deep $100, Exhaustive $450 per 1k call… vendor
- HQ San Francisco vendor
- Founders / pedigree Richard Socher (CEO; ex-Salesforce Chief Scientist; co-founder MetaMind) vendor
- MCP support yes — You.com MCP server (live search via MCP; up to 100 free queries/day without an API… vendor
- Optimised for enterprise web research with privacy controls vendor
- Pros Richard Socher founder pedigree; Georgian + Salesforce-backed; agent-mode shipped early. vendor
- Cons Lower mindshare than Perplexity; consumer + enterprise positioning split. vendor
- Project & sources you.com/research vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- compliance-certifications gdpr vendor
- sdk-languages python,rest vendor
- protocol-support mcp-server vendor
What changed
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- 2026-10-28
- Pricing “not applicable — wrong section” → “Research API usage-based: Lite $12, Standard $50, Deep $100, Exhaustive $450 per 1k calls (plus a Frontier tier)” source
- MCP support “not applicable — wrong section” → “yes — You.com MCP server (live search via MCP; up to 100 free queries/day without an API key)” source