# Grep AI vs You.com APIs (slim)

> You.com APIs scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Grep AI's 64.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Grep AI leads on security & auth. Both do search research. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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You.com APIs scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Grep AI's 64.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Grep AI leads on security & auth. Both do search research.

- Grep AI: B 64.4, rank #252 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai.min.md
- You.com APIs: BB 76.5, rank #29 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api.min.md
- Grep AI, good for Agents that hand off a long research or due-diligence job and want a cited report or structured fields back, including business verification and sanctions screening through built-in agents. Ahead on Security & auth, 65 against 53.
- You.com APIs, good for An unattended agent that needs search, page text and cited answers and wants to pay per call without an account. Ahead on Reliability, 85 against 60; Agent ergonomics, 84 against 70; Payments & pricing, 88 against 40; Maintenance & community, 82 against 74. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Grep AI | You.com APIs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 84 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 88 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Grep AI | You.com APIs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Parcha Labs, Inc. | You.com |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs` | `https://api.you.com/v1/search` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Price for search research | not published | $50 per 1,000 requests |
| x402 | no | payer tooling only |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Parcha Labs' terms of service. The grep-research-skills package on npm is MIT. The @parcha/agentrun and parcha-agentrun SDK packages state no licence in their registry metadata | none |
| Tools exposed | 82 | 6 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.youdotcom-oss/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-22 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-20 | 2024-08-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-21 | 2026-09-22 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 334 npm/wk, 52 PyPI/wk | 4.4k npm/wk, 92k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.8/5 (8) |