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Last updated 2026-08-04 · benchmark measured 2026-09-15 — deterministic & reproducible

You.com offers web search, content, and research APIs built for AI applications.

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Legit.Show scored You.com 80/100 on 2026-09-15, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/you-com/2026-09-15

Is You.com production-ready?

Legit.Show scores You.com 80 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on You.com (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 50/100
• Accessibility — 97/100
• Security — 65/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 100/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 75/100
• Standards — 76/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 152 ms to first byte.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who built it

Richard Socher · product account @youdotcom

Who it's for

AI developers · LLM builders · Enterprise teams · Data pipeline operators · Financial researchers

Pricing

Web Search API: Free (100 calls/day) then $5/1k calls; Contents API: $1.00/1k pages; Research API: $12.00/1k calls (Lite tier); Finance Research API: $110.00/1k calls; Volume discounts and annual savi

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