You.com for AI agents: benchmark results
You.com (search-index) was tested on scrape and search, not on map and crawl. It got the same tasks, the same model (Claude Haiku 5.5), the same prompt and the same limits as every other provider, and a script checked every answer.
Scrape 40 tasks · Test heading and structure preservation on documentation pages, plus package versions and JS fields.
- Tasks done
- 73%
- 29 of 40
- 95% interval
- 56%–89%
- Cost per finished task
- 1.00¢
- Median time
- 3.6 s
9th of 10 on tasks done. You.com finished 23 points fewer tasks than Context.dev, the leader. That gap is big enough to rule out chance.
Answer in the provider's response, no model: what the API returned held every answer on 31 of 40 applicable tasks (78%).
| Provider | Tasks done | 95% interval | Cost per finished task | Median time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Context.dev | 38 of 40 (95%) | 85%–100% | 1.36¢ | 4.6 s |
| Spider | 37 of 40 (93%) | 81%–100% | 0.88¢ | 5.7 s |
| Scrapfly | 36 of 40 (90%) | 79%–100% | 1.17¢ | 6.0 s |
| String | 35 of 40 (88%) | 76%–97% | 1.33¢ | 3.9 s |
| Linkup | 34 of 40 (85%) | 71%–96% | 1.23¢ | 4.0 s |
| Firecrawl | 32 of 40 (80%) | 66%–92% | 1.67¢ | 4.8 s |
| TinyFish | 31 of 40 (78%) | 61%–92% | 0.71¢ | 4.6 s |
| Browserbase | 30 of 40 (75%) | 60%–89% | 1.93¢ | 3.6 s |
| You.com | 29 of 40 (73%) | 56%–89% | 1.00¢ | 3.6 s |
| Jina Reader | 6 of 40 (15%) | 5%–26% | 4.26¢ | 5.4 s |
Search 30 tasks · Find facts, registry versions and documentation headings on the live web.
- Tasks done
- 70%
- 21 of 30
- 95% interval
- 50%–87%
- Cost per finished task
- 2.64¢
- Median time
- 4.8 s
6th of 7 on tasks done, tied with 1 other. You.com finished 23 points fewer tasks than Linkup, the leader. That gap is big enough to rule out chance.
Answer in the provider's response, no model: what the API returned held every answer on 16 of 27 applicable tasks (59%).
| Provider | Tasks done | 95% interval | Cost per finished task | Median time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linkup | 28 of 30 (93%) | 85%–100% | 2.19¢ | 6.2 s |
| Firecrawl | 26 of 30 (87%) | 71%–97% | 2.91¢ | 6.9 s |
| TinyFish | 26 of 30 (87%) | 70%–100% | 0.97¢ | 8.2 s |
| Context.dev | 25 of 30 (83%) | 63%–100% | 1.39¢ | 8.4 s |
| String | 23 of 30 (77%) | 56%–96% | 1.32¢ | 6.8 s |
| Browserbase | 21 of 30 (70%) | 50%–87% | 2.79¢ | 15 s |
| You.com | 21 of 30 (70%) | 50%–87% | 2.64¢ | 4.8 s |