Saturday, October 17, 2026
DeepSeek opens Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000
On Oct. 17, 2026 DeepSeek opened in-house Search and Fetch APIs. Search is a POST to /v1/tools/search and Fetch is a POST to /v1/tools/fetch. Each successful request costs $0.75 per 1,000, with a limit of 5 requests a second per account. Calls through DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code, or Codex stay free until 00:00 Beijing time on Nov. 1, 2026. DeepSeek says the engine handles hundreds of millions of searches a day; that volume is the company's figure.
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