DeepSeek opens paid Search and Fetch APIs
DeepSeek prices Search and Fetch at $0.75 per 1,000 successful calls each. Empty search results, errors and timeouts are not billed.
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DeepSeek opened Search and Fetch APIs on October 17 for AI agents and applications that retrieve external information to answer questions.
Functions and pricing
Search and page retrieval use separate endpoints. Their functions and billing conditions are:
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Search | Returns page titles, URLs and summaries for a query. |
| Fetch | Retrieves one specified page and returns its content as Markdown. |
| Price | $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests for each API. |
| Billable results | Search must return at least one result; Fetch must return page content. |
| No charge | Errors, empty search results and timeouts. |
Both use a DeepSeek API key. The requested number of search results does not change the per-request price.
Billing start
For server-side search and fetch tool calls through the DeepSeek API in Harness, Claude Code and Codex, official documentation lists November 1 at 00:00 Beijing time as the start of billing. That corresponds to 01:00 in Japan.
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