Search and Fetch APIs
DeepSeek added standalone Search and Fetch endpoints to its API, each priced at 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests and limited to 5 queries per second per account.
Search queries the web and returns structured results with a snippet, a model-readable summary, a rerank score and an authority rating. Fetch retrieves one URL and returns the title and a Markdown body. Agent and RAG apps can get live web content without a third-party search provider. Only successful calls are billed, and Search calls from Claude Code's Web Search tool or Codex's web_search are free for the first two weeks.
- Date
- Saturday 17 October 2026
- Lab
- DeepSeek
- Kind
- feature
- Access
- closed API
- Price
- 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests
Figures
| Measure | Value | Measured by |
|---|---|---|
| Price per 1,000 successful requests (Search and Fetch each) | 5 yuan failed, empty and timed-out requests are free | company |
| Rate limit per account | 5 queries per second tracked separately for Search and Fetch; Fetch also has per-domain limits | company |
| Results per Search request | 1 to 50 default 10; query up to 128 characters | company |
Details come from Pandaily's report of DeepSeek's Chinese API documentation, which I did not open. The exact billing start date after the free period has not been announced.
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