Komo Search vs You.com
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Komo Search
Pre-launch waitlist — the ad-free search engine is gone
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You.com
Web-grounded research and search APIs for developers and enterprises
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.5 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Unknown | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | $100 one-time free API credit for new signups |
| Paid from | — | Research API per 1,000 calls: Lite $12 up to Frontier $2,000+ (contact sales) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | 1B+ queries/month (via API/platform); no verified public figure for consumer user count |
| Founded | 2023 | 2020 |
| Maker | — | Richard Socher, Bryan McCann |
| Verdict | Komo Search is a privacy-minded, ad-free AI search engine that scans the live web to build answers, organised into Chat, Explore and Search modes with a clean, fast interface. For users who want quick AI answers without... |
You.com finished its long pivot in February 2026: the consumer answer engine is now the shop window for a B2B Research API business, with effort-tiered endpoints (lite through frontier, roughly $6.50 to $300 per thousand... |
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