You.com Launches Inference Router, Bringing Enterprise-Grade Reliability to Open-Weight AI Models On Demand

Growing AI companies get a 99.9%+ uptime SLA and built-in web search on leading open-weight models, without the long sales cycle

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--You.com, a leading provider of web search APIs for AI agents, today launched Inference Router, a unified service that gives teams leading open-weight and frontier models, plus the web search their agents rely on, through one OpenAI-compatible API. The API reduces LLM costs and has a 99.9%+ uptime per the service-level agreement.

As AI spend soars, companies are shifting everyday production work to open-weight models, which now match performance and accuracy of frontier models on many tasks at a fraction of the price. However, enterprise readiness essentials like uptime SLAs and zero data retention typically require large upfront commitments, and unlike frontier APIs, open-weight model hosts rarely offer built-in web search, forcing teams to add a second vendor for grounding. Inference Router brings the models, search and enterprise features together in one easy-to-onboard service.

“Our goal has always been to bring answers and intelligence to customers. Search has become one of the most important tools for AI agents. Now we’re making reliable inference available on demand to every company building AI agents,” said Richard Socher, founder and CEO of You.com. “Inference Router gives them leading open-weight models and the web search that keeps their answers current, all from one place, with enterprise-grade SLAs but without all the enterprise-level hassle.”

Early Inference Router customers are already reporting significant cost savings.

“You.com Inference Router cut our inference bill in half without costing us an inch of output quality, and it dropped straight into our existing framework,” said Kadhir Manickam, CTO and co-founder of ProductNow. “For a context engine where ETL runs around the clock, that's the kind of win that actually moves the needle.”

“We have seen massive cost savings, improved agent response latency, and equal or better outcomes for agents,” said Ashmer Aslam, CEO of GravityGTM. “It has only been a few weeks, but we have also seen far less downtime with the inference service than with closed-weight model APIs, both for our internal agents and for our customers' agents running go-to-market workloads at very large scale.”

Inference Router will offer leading open-weight models served through partners including Parasail, Inception, Meta and Alibaba Cloud, with more to come. Customers can choose U.S.-hosted models with enterprise-grade security and compliance.

Inference Router is available today at you.com/router.

About You.com

You.com builds web search and inference infrastructure for AI agents and LLMs. Its APIs including Web Search, Research, and Inference Router, give developers and enterprises deploying agents access to accurate, real-time information from the web and the models to act on it, with the reliability, security, and support that production workloads require. Learn more at you.com.