DeepSeek opens its Search and Fetch APIs to the public

DeepSeek's in-house web search engine is now a public API: Search returns structured, spam-filtered results with site/language/time filters, and Fetch turns any page into agent-ready Markdown, at CNY 5 (~$0.75) per 1,000 successful calls.

Why it matters

What you could build with it

Does it hold up?

Too early to judge — the endpoints opened today; the CNY 5/1,000-call price and 5-QPS cap are public, but no independent tests of latency, coverage, or spam-filtering quality exist yet.

Built with DeepSeek opens its Search and Fetch APIs to…

• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costsTHE DECODER · Oct 17 coverage noting DeepSeek turned its internal search engine — handling hundreds of millions of queries daily — into a public API at $0.75 per 1,000 calls, free via server-side tools until Oct 31.
• DeepSeek Opens V4.1-Flash-1017 Weights and $0.75 Search APIAI Weekly · Alert pairing the weights drop with the Search/Fetch rate card: $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, capped at 5 QPS per account.
• DeepSeek 'Minor Update' Just Dropped Opus-Level AI for 1/50th the Price. On a Saturday.Medium · Community writeup on the Oct 17 drop noting Search returns structured results and Fetch converts webpages to Markdown for agents.

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