DeepSeek launches Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 requests

The Search API lets applications query DeepSeek’s proprietary web‑search engine, while the Fetch API returns the main text of a supplied URL in markdown format. After locating relevant pages with Search, developers can pull the content with Fetch and feed it into downstream AI tasks such as summarisation or analysis. The APIs are already integrated on the server side of DeepSeek Harness and can be called from Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex. On the same day DeepSeek also released a new model, DeepSeek‑V4.1‑Flash‑1017.

DeepSeek frames the move as a way to broaden its developer ecosystem, offering low‑cost, ready‑made search and document‑retrieval functions that many AI agents and tools need. GIGAZINE’s price comparison suggests the fees are cheaper than competing search APIs, though the company warns that actual costs may vary with usage patterns after the free period ends.