You.com

About You.com

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by You.com

All products by You.com reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

You.comAI APIs

Web search, content extraction, and research APIs for AI agents and LLMs

From $1/mo7.9/10

How Our Review Panel Scores You.com

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed You.com's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.5 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who You.com competes with, and how they differ.

Perplexity7.5/10

Perplexity's answer engine and Sonar API target the same LLM-grounding market as You.com, but leads with a much larger consumer-facing product (app plus Perplexity Pro) alongside its API, versus You.com's API-first enterprise focus since 2024.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Tavily7.8/10

Tavily sells a search API purpose-built for AI agents with no consumer product at all, competing head-on with You.com's current pivot to a pure API business for LLM developers.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Exa Labs8.1/10

Exa's neural/semantic search API returns embeddings-ranked results rather than keyword-matched pages, competing with You.com's Search API on relevance approach at a comparable per-query price point (both priced around $7 per 1,000 grounding queries as of mid-2026).

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Brave Search7.6/10

Brave operates its own independent web index rather than licensing Bing or Google results, and prices its Search API for AI grounding at roughly $5 per 1,000 queries as of mid-2026 — undercutting You.com on cost for the same LLM-grounding use case.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Kagi7.8/10

Kagi is primarily a paid, privacy-focused consumer search subscription; its Search and FastGPT APIs compete with You.com's grounding APIs but serve a much smaller developer/enterprise base.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in You.com's history, with sources.

1. Jun 4, 2026Partnership

   Backed Weaver, an AI-native systems-integrator joint venture with Tquila

   You.com backed Weaver, a joint venture with venture builder Tquila pairing specialized engineers with AI agents to move enterprise AI projects into production, grounded in You.com's search APIs; former You.com CRO Peter Grant leads it as CEO.

   finance.yahoo.com
2. Oct 21, 2025Acquisition

   Acquired Graft's team and technology

   You.com acquired the team and AI platform technology of enterprise-AI startup Graft, appointing Graft co-founder Adam Oliner as Field CTO, to accelerate its enterprise search-API infrastructure.

   finance.yahoo.com
3. Sep 3, 2025Funding

   Series C — $100M led by Cox Enterprises at $1.5B valuation

   You.com raised a $100M Series C led by Cox Enterprises, with Georgian, Salesforce Ventures and Norwest participating, valuing the company at $1.5B and making it a unicorn.

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4. May 15, 2025Launch

   Launched ARI Enterprise, an AI deep-research agent for consultants and analysts

   Building on the February 2025 ARI research agent, You.com launched ARI Enterprise, targeting consulting firms, financial analysts and researchers with a platform analyzing 500+ sources — part of the shift from consumer search toward enterprise research tooling.

   thelettertwo.com
5. Sep 4, 2024Funding

   Series B — $50M led by Georgian

   You.com raised a $50M Series B led by Georgian, with Salesforce Ventures, NVIDIA, Gen Digital, SBVA and DuckDuckGo participating, bringing total funding to $99M as the company pivoted toward enterprise and API customers.

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6. December 2022Launch

   Launched YouChat, an early ChatGPT-style chatbot with live web citations

   You.com added YouChat, a conversational AI feature that cites current web sources in its answers — an early step from pure search results toward an AI-assistant interface, ahead of Bing Chat's public rollout.

   voicebot.ai
7. Jul 14, 2022Funding

   Series A — $25M led by Radical Ventures

   You.com raised a $25M Series A led by Radical Ventures, with Time Ventures, Breyer Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Day One Ventures participating, bringing total funding to $45M.

   techcrunch.com
8. Nov 9, 2021Funding

   Seed round — $20M led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures

   You.com launched its public beta alongside a $20M seed round led by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's Time Ventures, with Breyer Capital, Sound Ventures and Day One Ventures participating.

   techcrunch.com
9. 2020Founded

   Founded by Richard Socher and Bryan McCann

   Richard Socher (former Salesforce chief scientist, following Salesforce's 2016 acquisition of his startup MetaMind) and Bryan McCann (former Salesforce NLP researcher) left Salesforce in 2020 to build You.com as an alternative search engine.

   fastcompany.com