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The enterprise AI search engine that grounds every answer

Ai SearchAI AgentsWorkflow AIAssistantsSEO AISupport AI

87

Overall score

43

Heat score

Pricing

Free$0/month
YouPro$15/month billed annually ($20/month monthly)
YouPro Education$6.99/month
TeamCustom pricing
EnterpriseCustom (contact sales)
Web Search API$5.00/1k calls
Research API$6.50/1k calls (lite) to $300+/1k calls (frontier)
Contents API$1.00/1k pages
Purchase Subscription

Technical Specs

Inputs

Text Query, URL, Document Upload, Image, Audio File, API Prompt, Natural Language Instruction

Outputs

Cited Research Report, Web Search Results, AI-Generated Answer, Code Snippet, Summarized Document, Data Visualization, Custom Agent Output

AI Type

Agentic AI

Model Architecture

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Daily Prompts

N/A

Context Length

200K

Output Quality

Accuracy

87%

Content

86%

Reasoning

88%

Company Profile

Company

You Technologies

Founded

2020

HQ

Palo Alto, California, USA

Employees

318

Total Raised / Total Funding

$199M

Revenue

$50M

Valuation

$1.5B

ARR

$50M

CEO

Richard Socher

Overview

Estimated Paid Users

450K

Current estimate

Total Earnings Till Date

$120M

+6.90% from last month

Market Share

1.2%

Current share

Average Session

18

Per active user

Hallucination Rate

9%

Model quality signal

Growth Rate

+1.26%

Monthly active users

Burn Rate

$95M

Total expenses / years active

Paid User Gain

+7.69%

Monthly paid user trend

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Platforms

Web App

Available

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Profit Analysis

-$58M

Total Loss

$151.2M

Total Profit

$0

Performance Metrics

Accuracy

87%

Context

86%

Reasoning

88%

Safety

85%

Benchmarks

No benchmark scores available.

You.com Models

YouChat 1.0

Type: Text

Description: First consumer-facing LLM with live internet access and verifiable citations. Launched before ChatGPT, establishing You.com as a pioneer in grounded AI chat.

Context Length: 200K tokens

Architecture: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

YouChat 2.0 (C-A-L)

Type: Multimodal

Description: Upgraded chat model using the proprietary C-A-L (Chat, Apps, Links) architecture, enabling multi-format outputs including charts, tables, images, videos, and code within search results.

Context Length: 200K tokens

Architecture: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

YouChat 3.0

Type: Text

Description: Integrated Reddit, TikTok, Stack Overflow, and Wikipedia as live data sources. First AI search to blend social signals with web search and generative AI.

Context Length: 200K tokens

Architecture: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

You.com Research Agent (ARI)

Type: Reasoning

Description: Autonomous deep-research agent scanning 400+ sources simultaneously, producing cited reports with interactive visualizations. Named TIME Best Invention 2025. Model-agnostic, operating over You.com's search infrastructure.

Context Length: 200K tokens

Architecture: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

You.com Smart Agent

Type: Text

Description: The default free-tier AI agent combining web search grounding, multi-source retrieval, and LLM reasoning. Accessible to all users without subscription.

Context Length: 200K tokens

Architecture: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Funding Rounds & Investors

Total Funding

$199M

Rounds

4

Series C

$100M

Sep 2025

Led by Cox Enterprises; valued company at $1.5B unicorn status; David Yang from Socium Ventures joined board; source: Investing.com / The SaaS News 2025-09-03

Series B

$50M

Sep 2024

Led by Georgian; brought total funding to $99M; source: BusinessWire / TechCrunch 2024-09-04

Series A

$25M

Jul 2022

Led by Radical Ventures; source: Wikipedia / TechCrunch July 2022

Founders/Team

RS

Richard Socher

Co-Founder & CEO

BM

Bryan McCann

Co-Founder & CTO

Direct competitors

No direct competitors available.

Change Log / Major Updates

2025 · Feb 1

Launches ARI (Advanced Research and Insights), an autonomous agent that scans 400+ sources simultaneously and produces cited, interactive research reports. Targets regulated industries. Named TIME's Best Invention of 2025.

2025 · Sep 3

Raises $100M Series C led by Cox Enterprises, achieving unicorn status at $1.5B valuation. ARR reported at $50M with revenue growing 40x in 2024. Plans to double headcount from ~100 to 200+ and open new offices in San Francisco and New York City.

2025 · Oct 21

Acquires Graft team and technology to advance high-accuracy enterprise search infrastructure for AI agents and LLMs. Appoints Graft Co-Founder Adam Oliner as Field CTO.

Compliance, Integrations & Support

Industry: Not specified

Compliances: Not specified

Integrations: OpenAI GPT-4o, Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google Gemini 1.5 Pro, Meta Llama 3, DeepSeek R1, Stable Diffusion XL, NVIDIA, Salesforce, Google Drive, SharePoint, Slack, Databricks, DuckDuckGo, REST API, Python SDK, JavaScript SDK, Chrome Extension, MCP Marketplace, Graft (acquired)

Support:email, help center, community forum, enterprise support, dedicated account manager

Target audience: Enterprise Knowledge Workers, AI Developers, Hedge Fund Analysts, Journalists, Legal Researchers, Financial Analysts, Product Teams, Data Scientists, Consultants, Healthcare Researchers

Supported languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Dutch

You.com Acquisitions

GR

Graft

October 21, 2025

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More About You.com

Richard Socher built neural NLP at Stanford, then took that work into Salesforce as Chief Scientist — a role that put him at the center of enterprise AI before most boardrooms even knew what a transformer was. In 2020, alongside his Salesforce Research colleague Bryan McCann, he quietly incorporated You Technologies with a single conviction: that search was about to become the most important interface in the AI era, and nobody had gotten it right yet. Two years later, TIME named You.com one of its Best Inventions, not for novelty, but for actually working.

The platform has passed through three distinct lives. First, a consumer search engine that let users customize their sources, rank their preferred sites, and chat with a live-web-connected AI before ChatGPT made that normal. Then, an AI productivity engine — YouChat, YouWrite, YouImagine bundled into YouPro — competing on value against far better-funded rivals. And now, since 2024, an enterprise infrastructure company: selling Search APIs, Research APIs, and full-stack RAG deployments to hedge funds, media groups, healthcare publishers, and global consultancies. Revenue grew 40x in 2024 alone, ARR crossed $50 million, and a $100 million Series C at a $1.5 billion unicorn valuation followed in September 2025. The February 2025 launch of ARI — an autonomous deep-research agent that cross-references 400+ sources and produces cited, interactive reports — was named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2025, the second consecutive year You.com claimed that distinction. The October 2025 acqui-hire of Graft brought enterprise foundation-model operationalization capabilities in-house, accelerating the company's ambition to become the canonical search layer for the agentic AI era.

You.com FAQ's

What is You.com used for?

You.com is an AI-powered search and productivity platform. Individuals use it as a smarter alternative to Google, with AI chat, image generation, and writing tools. Enterprises and developers use its Search APIs and Research APIs to power AI agents, internal tools, and LLM grounding with real-time web data and verified citations.

What is ARI on You.com?

ARI (Advanced Research and Insights) is You.com's autonomous deep research agent launched in February 2025. It scans over 400 sources simultaneously, produces comprehensive cited reports with interactive graphs and visualizations, and is designed for regulated industries requiring source verification. It was named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2025.

How much does YouPro cost?

YouPro is priced at $15/month billed annually ($180/year) or $20/month on a monthly basis. It includes unlimited access to premium AI models including GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and DeepSeek R1, plus unlimited image and writing generation. A discounted Education plan is available at $6.99/month for verified students and educators.

What is You.com's Search API and how is it priced?

You.com's Web Search API lets developers and AI agents query the live web programmatically. It is priced at $5.00 per 1,000 calls and includes live crawl and news search at no extra charge. The Research API, designed for deeper agentic research workflows, starts at $6.50 per 1,000 calls (lite) and goes up to $300+ per 1,000 calls (frontier depth). New accounts receive $100 in free credits.

How does You.com differ from Perplexity?

Both offer AI-powered search with citations, but You.com has made a stronger enterprise pivot, offering dedicated Search and Research APIs, private RAG over internal data, custom vertical indexes, and enterprise-grade security including SOC 2 Type II compliance and zero data retention options. You.com also supports model-agnostic architectures letting enterprises choose from multiple LLMs, while Perplexity focuses more on a polished consumer and prosumer interface.