DeepSeek Opens Search and Fetch APIs to All Developers at $0.75 Per Thousand Requests
DeepSeek has made its Search and Fetch APIs available to all developers at $0.75 per thousand successful requests starting October 31, with failed requests not being billed.
DeepSeek made its Search and Fetch APIs available to all developers on October 17, following a period during which the service was restricted to a limited group.
Pricing starts at $0.75 per thousand successful requests beginning at 4:00 PM GMT on October 31, with confirmation that failed requests are not billed.
The two APIs return short snippets or summaries, or convert page content into Markdown format, with a limit of five requests per second per developer.
The launch of the two APIs came alongside the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 model, at a time when artificial intelligence companies are competing over the pricing of search and data services provided to developers.
What Do These Terms Mean?
Application Programming Interface (API): A channel through which developers connect to ready-made software to request data or a service without needing to build the system from scratch.
Successful Request: A call that is processed successfully and returns a result, which is the only thing billed here.
Markdown: A simple text format that uses symbols to format headings and lists, used to feed content into artificial intelligence systems.
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