Key takeaways

• You.com's premium subscription tier, YouPro, costs$20 per month or$15 per month if billed annually. 
• With the subscription, users get to take advantage of the free perks, such as access to the internet and footnotes, and the most advanced large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI, Google, and more. 
  
• There is no way to compare LLM performance on YouPro to the performance of a model on its native platform. 

You.com, formerly YouChat, offers competitive features that have earned it a spot on 's list of best AI chatbots. I tried its premium tier, YouPro, which left me even more impressed than I was with the free version. 

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If you list the best features of every major AI chatbot on the market, including ChatGPT, Anthropic, and Copilot, and put them together, you'll get YouPro. That's a bold claim, so I'll explain. 

Both free and paid versions of You.com give users access to the internet, which is already a major win over ChatGPT or Claude, which have knowledge cutoffs. In addition to internet access, You.com users have access to footnotes that link to the online source of its answers -- one of the best features of Copilot. 

With YouPro, users can access the game-changing feature of AI modes, where users can toggle between different modes within the chatbot to have different search experiences. 

The modes include Smart, which is also available to free users; Genius, which has advanced capabilities, including file uploads; Research, which as the name implies is tailored for in-depth analysis; Create, which can generate images from texts; and finally, the pi