DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
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DeepSeek launches Search and Fetch APIs for live web access at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests.
The Search and Fetch APIs give agents and RAG applications access to live web content. Search returns structured results powered by DeepSeek's in-house engine; Fetch retrieves a single page as Markdown. Pricing is $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests (HTTP 200 with content). Failed requests, empty results, and timeouts are not billed. QPS limits are 5 per API at the account level.
What commenters are saying
Commenters discuss anti-bot protection, with one noting that bypassing Cloudflare requires a custom Firefox fork and residential proxies. Another thread criticizes such scraping as an arms race harming the web. On model quality, some find DeepSeek Flash nearly SOTA for coding at a fraction of Opus 5.5's cost, while others disagree about general reasoning.