Finance Research
by api.you.com in Markets & finance
You.com Finance Research API: agentic deep research on a financial question, returning a synthesized answer with cited sources. Use when an agent needs well-reasoned market or company analysis for a trading or investment decision. JSON body: input (required question), research_effort (standard | deep | exhaustive, default deep). Paid per call in USDC. Async: paying returns a jobId; poll the SIWX-authed poll_url for the result (deep research takes 1-3 min).
https://api.you.com/v1/finance_research- Price
- $0.11
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 877 ms
- 3.0 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 30 min ago, next in 2 min
Reliability
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How to call it
POST https://api.you.com/v1/finance_research
Each call costs $0.11 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
POST https://api.you.com/v1/finance_research
content-type: application/json
{
"input": "What is the bull vs bear case for NVDA over the next 12 months?",
"research_effort": "deep"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
input | string | Yes | The finance research question. |
research_effort | string | No | Research depth. Higher effort costs more per call: standard, deep, exhaustive. One of: standard, deep, exhaustive. Default: "deep". |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"jobId": "b2042efe-4cfc-4df5-be39-35be7880c60e",
"poll_url": "/x402/finance_research/results/b2042efe-4cfc-4df5-be39-35be7880c60e",
"status": "pending"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.11.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.you.com/v1/finance_research' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"input":"What is the bull vs bear case for NVDA over the next 12 months?","research_effort":"deep"}'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://api.you.com/v1/finance_research' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"input":"What is the bull vs bear case for NVDA over the next 12 months?","research_effort":"deep"}' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.11 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.11" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.11 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.you.com%2Fv1%2Ffinance_research&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.you.com/v1/finance_research", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"input": "What is the bull vs bear case for NVDA over the next 12 months?",
"research_effort": "deep"
}),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.11 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.11"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://api.you.com/v1/finance_research",
json={
"input": "What is the bull vs bear case for NVDA over the next 12 months?",
"research_effort": "deep",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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