DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

Search returns up to 50 ranked results per query, and Fetch returns a single page as Markdown. Failed requests, empty search results and timeouts are not billed, and the number of results returned does not change the price. Each endpoint has a five-requests-per-second limit per account, and Fetch also has an undisclosed per-domain limit. The launch arrived alongside DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an update with open weights under the MIT License. Calls made through DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code or Codex are currently free of charge, and per-request billing starts at 00:00 Beijing time on November 1, 2026. Before this, giving a DeepSeek agent web access usually meant adding another provider, with its own key, its own bill and its own ranking behavior. One launch-day comparison put rival search