Turbo Seek 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 — Turbo Seek is free to use, You.com has a free plan
Public API: You.com has one; not confirmed by us for Turbo Seek
Higher Trust score: You.com — 95 vs 72 for Turbo Seek
Best fit: Turbo Seek: developers wanting to study or fork an open-source answer-engine implementation · 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 — Turbo Seek 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

Turbo SeekA free, open-source AI search engine that scrapes top results and synthesizes an answer with sources.

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	Turbo Seek	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	72 / 100	95 / 100
Platforms	Web	Web, API
Company	Nutlope (independent open-source project)	SuSea, Inc.
Last verified	Sep 1, 2026	Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Turbo Seek

TurboSeek is a legitimate, actively maintained open-source answer engine rather than a commercial product, which means it's free and inspectable but carries no support commitment or company behind it. It's a reasonable pick for developers who want to see how a search-and-synthesize pipeline is built, or self-host their own copy.

Pros

fully free hosted version at turboseek.io
open-source codebase available to inspect or self-host
combines web search with AI-synthesized answers and follow-ups
actively shows commit and issue activity on GitHub

Cons

no company, support channel, or SLA behind the hosted version
self-hosting requires managing your own API keys and costs
no account system, so no saved search history across sessions

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 Turbo Seek if you need

developers wanting to study or fork an open-source answer-engine implementation
users who want a free alternative to paid AI search tools
anyone wanting to self-host with their own API keys

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