Research API - Top Rated on the DeepSearchQA Benchmark

How It Works
The Research API runs an autonomous reasoning loop that scales with the complexity of the question. It plans its own search strategy, breaks the question into sub-questions, and manages context across hundreds or thousands of reasoning steps. At the highest effort levels, a single query can run more than 1,000 reasoning turns and process up to 10 million tokens, well beyond what any single LLM context window can hold.

Configurable Research Depth
The `research_effort` parameter controls how much compute the API allocates to a query. Higher effort means more searches, deeper source reading, and more cross-referencing at the cost of longer response times. Four tiers are available: `lite`, `standard`, `deep`, and `exhaustive`. Pricing is fixed per tier.

Use Cases
- Research automation: Replace manual research workflows with an API call that returns a cited, synthesized answer.
- Question answering: Power internal or customer-facing Q&A with grounded, multi-source responses.
- Due diligence and compliance: Synthesize regulatory, financial, or competitive intelligence into citation-backed briefs.
- Content generation: Generate cited drafts grounded in real-time sources across any domain.

Enterprise
- 99.99% uptime
- SOC2-certified infrastructure with zero data retention
- You.com serves 1B+ queries monthly across 3,000+ enterprise customers, including 57% of the Fortune 500

Highlights
- **Synthesized answers, not search results**: Returns a structured, cited response to complex questions your application would otherwise have to research itself.
- **Configurable depth**: Four effort tiers balance latency, accuracy, and cost for any use case.
- **Real-time and cited**: Answers are grounded in current sources with full traceability via inline citations.
- **Enterprise-ready**: SOC2-certified, zero data retention, 99.99% uptime.