You.com vs Valyu

Valyu is great for AI knowledge work that needs financial records, scientific evidence and a team's own research in one investigation. DeepResearch turns that evidence into cited reports and structured outputs. You.com focuses on web search, content retrieval and cited answers for AI applications.

TL;DR

Choose Valyu when research needs named specialist datasets, covered licensed publications and internal files, with a report your team can review. You.com is known for web search and answers. Valyu brings source selection, document inputs and reusable research briefs into the same workflow.

You.com vs Valyu at a glance

DeepResearch benchmark results

In Valyu's published DRACO evaluation, Valyu DeepResearch (Heavy) scored 72.7%, compared with 53.0% for You.com Research (exhaustive) — a 19.7-percentage-point lead. DRACO grades 100 long-form research tasks across 10 professional domains against expert-written rubrics. The results are reported in Introducing DeepResearch.

DRACO research scores and cost per 1,000 requests, from Valyu's published launch evaluation.

For a pre-readout or valuation memo, source access should lead to a complete report with supported assumptions and unresolved questions. DRACO grades that finished research against expert-written criteria, adding a report-level comparison to the source and document differences above. These scores cover You.com's general Research API; its Finance Research API was not part of this evaluation. View the methodology, raw outputs and evaluations.

Bring the required sources into the assignment

Valyu's data catalogue includes SEC filings, financial statements, market data, academic papers and clinical-trial records. Teams can select the datasets their research needs and use them alongside current web information.

An example use case: An equity analyst reviewing a drug developer before a trial readout needs to answer two questions: can the company fund its programme, and does the study support the result investors expect? The research needs both reported financials and clinical evidence. A good query for the deepresearch brief can be:

Prepare a pre-readout note on this drug developer using its latest filings, the registered study and published evidence on the treatment. Estimate cash runway from reported figures with assumptions stated, compare the registered endpoint and population with management's claims, and return a cited memo identifying the evidence that would change our thesis.

Select the filing, trial and literature sources, and attach the previous investment memo. The analyst can review the funding assumptions and study questions with the portfolio manager, then decide what needs further investigation before the readout.

Bring the firm's own knowledge into the research

Attach supported PDFs, Word documents or Excel workbooks to an individual DeepResearch task. Tell the agent which assumptions to check and how the documents relate to the external evidence.

For continuing archives, Valyu offers enterprise private indexes and Forward Deployed Engineers who configure retrieval around the team's work. Past memos, lab reports and portfolio reporting can contribute to the same investigation.

Make the research brief reusable

Valyu DeepResearch lets teams define the question, select search sources and specify the report structure. It conducts the investigation and returns a cited report or structured data. PDF output is supported; generating Word documents or Excel workbooks requires code execution.

Save a useful brief through the Workflows API and reuse it with new inputs. Workflows is in Beta. A pinned version preserves the instructions, while live sources and findings can still change.

Which should you choose?

You.com is a fit for web search, content retrieval and cited answers. Choose Valyu when AI knowledge work requires specialist datasets, covered licensed literature, the firm's own documents and a repeatable research brief.

Use the report your team already needs. Identify its required sources, attach the relevant internal research and review the returned citations and open questions.

Try Valyu or talk to the team about licensed sources and an enterprise research workflow. To test from an existing agent, follow the MCP setup guide.