DeepSeek Search & Fetch API

Overview

DeepSeek opened two web tools to all API users on October 17, 2026: Search, which returns ranked pages with snippets, summaries and optional full content, and Fetch, which returns a single page as Markdown. Both use the standard DeepSeek bearer-token API at /v1/tools/search and /v1/tools/fetch. Only successful requests are billed; calls made through DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code or Codex are free until 00:00 Beijing time on November 1, 2026.

This is a sourced directory entry. Features and capabilities are reported in the linked sources; this entry does not document independent Aymorphic testing.

Key features

• Search supports operators (site:, lang:, after:, before:), count of 1 to 50, and per-result rerank_score and authority fields
• Search returns a ~100-200 character snippet and a ~600-800 character summary per result
• Fetch returns page content as Markdown for URLs up to 8,192 characters
• Documented limits: Search 100 QPS and Fetch 25 QPS per account, plus a per-domain Fetch limit
• Errors, empty results and timeouts are not billed

Use cases

• Grounding agents in current web results without a separate search vendor
• Reading and summarizing a specific URL inside a tool-calling loop
• Coding agents that need documentation lookups

Pricing

$0.75 per 1,000 successful requests for each of Search and Fetch; count does not change price. Free through DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code and Codex until 00:00 Beijing time Nov 1, 2026.

Pricing reflects the source record and may change. Confirm current terms with the provider.

Dates and sources

Released

17 Oct 2026

Record updated

22 Oct 2026

Record last checked

22 Oct 2026

• api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search
• ppc.land/deepseek-prices-web-search-for-ai-agents-at-0-75-per-1-000-calls/