You.com

Free allowance: 100 Web Search API queries a day through the hosted MCP route, with no API key, no account and no credit card
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: free tier
Identity: anonymousno card, no phone
Binding limit: request-rate100 queries a day keyless through MCP; USD 5 per 1,000 calls on the paid path; USD 100 credit with a 60-day expiry
Evidence: documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22

Free tier	100 Web Search API queries a day through the hosted MCP route, with no API key, no account and no credit card unit requests; metered on request-count
Price	none stated
Limits	request-rate (binding) 100 queries a day keyless through MCP; USD 5 per 1,000 calls on the paid path source request-rate (binding) USD 100 credit with a 60-day expiry source
Identity	anonymous the free route states no key, no account and no credit card; the paid route is an account
Egress	not applicable
Per-object cap	not applicable: the unit is a query
Retention	the keyless daily allowance resets daily
Interface	rest, rest REST Web Search API and a hosted MCP server; the keyless route is MCP only
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The one anonymous search leg a reader can use before registering anywhere
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The keyless route is the only one in this topic with a stated daily number and no identity at all. It is MCP, not a plain HTTP search endpoint, so it needs an MCP client.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1 request-rate 1000 calls request-rate 100 credit

Evidence 1

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	you.com/pricing	Free: no API key, no account, no credit card, 100 Web Search API queries a day via MCP; pay as you go with no minimums; a call is USD 5 per 1,000

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