Omniplex vs You.com

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Free plan: Both — Omniplex is free to use, You.com has a free plan
Public API: You.com has one; not confirmed by us for Omniplex
Higher Trust score: You.com — 95 vs 76 for Omniplex
Best fit: Omniplex: Developers who want a self-hosted Perplexity-style search assistant · You.com: Agent and RAG builders who need a live web index with citations through an API or MCP
Status: Both up at our last check — Omniplex Sep 1, 2026, You.com Sep 6, 2026

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

OmniplexOpen-source answer-engine search that combines multiple language models with live web results.

You.comWeb search, content extraction and research APIs for grounding AI agents, with a sign-in chat product kept behind the front door.

Side by side

Fact	Omniplex	You.com
Category	AI Search & Answer Engines	AI Search & Answer Engines
Pricing model	Free	Freemium
Starts at	—	$0.005/request
Public API	Not confirmed	Yes
Trust score	76 / 100	95 / 100
Platforms	Web	Web, API
Company	Omniplex-ai	SuSea, Inc.
Last verified	Sep 1, 2026	Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Omniplex

Omniplex is a genuine open-source answer engine with an active GitHub community behind it, not just a wrapper repo. It suits developers comfortable running their own instance more than people who want a polished hosted product, since the hosted site's pricing is not easy to pin down.

Pros

Source code is fully open under AGPL-3.0
Combines multiple LLMs with live web, weather, and stock data in one query
Active GitHub community with over a thousand stars

Cons

The hosted site's pricing and company details are not easy to verify
Project documentation describes core features as still under active development

You.com

Treat You.com as an API vendor now: the homepage, pricing and about pages are all about search, extraction and research endpoints for agents, with a free MCP allowance that lets you try the index without an account. The per-call prices are plain and the research tiers go deep enough to replace a scraping pipeline, but the consumer chat that the brand was known for has retreated behind sign-in with no visible plan, so anyone arriving for a ChatGPT alternative should look at Perplexity instead.

Pros

100 free Web Search queries a day via MCP with no key, account or card
Published per-1,000-call prices across search, contents, answer and research endpoints (15 October 2026)
Research tiers from Lite to Frontier cover quick lookups through background deep dives
Enterprise options with zero data retention, SOC 2 and custom QPS

Cons

The consumer chat product has no public plans page; /plans returns 404 and /chat redirects to sign-in
Deep research tiers are expensive per call and only make sense in volume
FAQ entries on credit expiry and volume discounts are present but empty on the pricing page
No desktop or mobile apps linked from the current site

Which one fits

Choose Omniplex if you need

Developers who want a self-hosted Perplexity-style search assistant
Teams that need to control which models and APIs a search tool uses

Choose You.com if you need

Agent and RAG builders who need a live web index with citations through an API or MCP
Teams that want deep, multi-step research calls priced per request rather than per seat
Enterprises that need zero data retention and SOC 2 on their search layer