You.com
Conversational search + assistant with citation
Overview
You.com is an AI-first search engine that combines web search with a chat assistant. Cites sources for every answer, supports custom personas, and offers research/code agents. Paid tier (You Pro) unlocks GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini and other models for power users.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 19 May 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
Use cases
ASEAN Perspective
You.com in Southeast Asia
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You.com is an AI search engine and assistant that grounds LLM answers in live web results, lets users switch between multiple underlying models, and offers source citations plus productivity-oriented modes. For users who want a cited, web-aware answer engine and the flexibility to pick models, it is a capable alternative to Perplexity and a useful research companion. It also exposes search/RAG APIs for developers.
It is not a frontier model in its own right, so quality depends on the models it routes to, and the consumer experience can feel feature-dense. The strongest research and agent features sit behind paid tiers. ASEAN users get standard global English access with limited regional-language tuning. Good for web-grounded answers and developers needing search-augmented APIs; less compelling as a pure chatbot.
Notable facts
- You.com was co-founded by Richard Socher, the former Chief Scientist at Salesforce and a top-cited NLP researcher with over 90,000 academic citations.
- The platform does not use third-party tracking cookies — a significant architectural choice that differentiates it from advertising-supported search engines.
- You.com was one of the first AI search engines to offer multiple AI modes for the same platform, allowing users to switch between creative, analytical, and technical AI capabilities.
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