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Ceramic.ai vs DeepSeek Search API

At 100,000 searches a month: Ceramic.ai $25.00, DeepSeek Search API $75.00. Ceramic.ai costs the same or less from 20,000 to 500,000 standard searches.

Ceramic.ai checked Oct 17, 2026 · DeepSeek Search API checked Oct 24, 2026

Ceramic.ai vs DeepSeek Search API: both bills as the job grows

The monthly bill at every volume from 20,000 to 500,000 searches, with your job marked. A step is a plan boundary.

Monthly bills from 20,000 to 500,000 searches for Ceramic.ai, DeepSeek Search API.$0$100$200$300$40020K50K100K200K500KSearches a month, log scaleCeramic.aiDeepSeek Search APIyour jobDeepSeek Search APICeramic.ai$75.00$25.00
  • Ceramic.ai
  • DeepSeek Search API
The bills behind the curve
  • Ceramic.ai: 20,000: $5.00 · 50,000: $12.50 · 100,000: $25.00 · 200,000: $50.00 · 500,000: $100.00
  • DeepSeek Search API: 20,000: $15.00 · 50,000: $37.50 · 100,000: $75.00 · 200,000: $150.00 · 500,000: $375.00

Both bills at the same volume · Depth and variants: one page of results per search

100,000 search calls. The verdict above follows your volume; the write-up below uses 100,000 search calls.

Ceramic.ai

$25.00 Published bill Pay As You Go, $0.25 per 1,000 searches
Bills failed fetchesnot published
Billing modelrequests
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Full Ceramic.ai pricing →

DeepSeek Search API

$75.00 Published bill Pay as you go, $0.75 per 1,000 searches
Bills failed fetchesno
Billing modelrequests
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Full DeepSeek Search API pricing →

The difference

$50.00 A month at this volume, in favor of Ceramic.ai. Ceramic.ai costs the same or less at every volume from 20,000 to 500,000 standard searches, so the answer doesn't change anywhere in that range. For other request types the dated comparison below names its own boundaries.

Charge by charge

What each published charge does to 100,000 searches a month; prices are read on each vendor's own page, dates beside the bills above
ChargeCeramic.aiDeepSeek Search API
Standard searches, per 1,000 $0.25$0.75
Deep searches, per 1,000 not publishednot published
Failed requests billed not publishedno
Past the plan's allowance pay as you go, no allowancepay as you go, no allowance
Paying yearly no yearly priceno yearly price
Concurrent requests on this plan not publishednot published
Free tier 1,000 requests once, no cardnone published
Works with MCP server, LangChain, LlamaIndexnone listed

Choose Ceramic.ai when

  • price for 100,000 searches a month matters most: $25.00 against $75.00
  • you work through an MCP server, LangChain or LlamaIndex (each listed for it; not for the other)

Choose DeepSeek Search API when

  • no published charge favours it for this job; weigh what it offers beyond price

How the Ceramic.ai bill adds up

  1. Base rate1 requestper request
  2. × JavaScript renderingNot requiredNot part of this workload
  3. × Premium proxyNot required
  4. ÷ Success rate1Failure billing is not published; this is an assumption
  5. = Billed units per search1 requestFrom this bill’s calculation
  6. = per 1,000 searches$0.25Pay As You Go
Credits and multipliersJavaScript renderingBilled failuresSuccess rateConcurrencyFree tierRenews monthly

How the DeepSeek Search API bill adds up

  1. Base rate1 request
  2. × JavaScript renderingNot required
  3. × Premium proxyNot required
  4. ÷ Success rate1Failed requests are not billed
  5. = Billed units per search1 request
  6. = per 1,000 searches$0.75Pay as you go
Credits and multipliersJavaScript renderingBilled failuresSuccess rateConcurrencyFree tierRenews monthly

Both bills, step by step

Ceramic.ai

  1. Successes you want

    100,000 standard searches

    Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.

  2. ÷ 1

    Attempts you are billed for

    100,000 standard searches

    Failure billing is not published. This workload assumes no failures, so the missing rule does not change the bill.

  3. × 1

    What the meter counts

    100,000 requests

    One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.

  4. =

    Metered cash this month

    $25.00 /mo

    Pay As You Go: the cheapest way to buy this volume, not just the first plan big enough.

Bars share one linear scale across the 3 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.

DeepSeek Search API

  1. Successes you want

    100,000 standard searches

    See the note above.

  2. × 1

    Attempts you are billed for

    100,000 standard searches

    DeepSeek Search API does not bill failed fetches, so failures cost nothing here.

  3. × 1

    What the meter counts

    100,000 requests

  4. =

    Metered cash this month

    $75.00 /mo

    Pay as you go: the cheapest way to buy this volume, not just the first plan big enough.

Both ladders share one linear scale, topping out at 100,000 counted units, so a longer bar means more billed work rather than a different drawing.

These figures are for one stated workload: 100,000 standard search calls with one default-depth result set per call. Change the volume above and both bills, the verdict and the curve follow it.

Decision boundary: none on price. Ceramic.ai’s pay-as-you-go rate is $0.25 per 1,000 queries and DeepSeek’s is $0.75 per 1,000 successful searches, so Ceramic costs a third as much at every volume and the order never flips: $25 against $75 for 100,000 searches a month. From 396,000 queries a month Ceramic’s $99 Pro plan widens the gap, $200 against $750 at a million. Ceramic also gives 1,000 free queries once; DeepSeek has no free allowance for direct calls. (Ceramic.ai pricing; DeepSeek pricing, checked Oct 17, 2026)

The one billing rule that narrows it is DeepSeek’s: a search that returns no results is not billed, nor is a failure or a timeout. Ceramic does not say whether an empty or failed search is billed outside Cloudflare’s payment gateway. Only a workload where most searches find nothing would close the gap. (Search & Fetch guide; Ceramic agentic payments, checked Oct 17, 2026)

What each returns

Ceramic.ai searches its own lexical index of more than 40 billion English pages: it matches your keywords, and returns titles, URLs and long page descriptions. DeepSeek searches its in-house engine and returns up to 50 results with a relevance score, an authority tier from 0 to 4, a summary written for a model and, on request, the page text; its query operators include lang:, site: and date limits. (Ceramic.ai FAQ; Search & Fetch guide, checked Oct 17, 2026)

What each provides that the other does not

Ceramic is the one with buying routes: it can be bought through Cloudflare’s Web Search API at the same list price or paid per request over x402. DeepSeek is the one with throughput and a page reader: 100 searches a second per account against Ceramic’s 20 on pay as you go and 50 on Pro, and its Fetch API returns any URL as Markdown at the same $0.75 per 1,000, from the same balance as its models. (Cloudflare Web Search API providers, checked Oct 17, 2026; Ceramic rate limits; Search & Fetch guide, checked Oct 19, 2026)

Who should pick which

Pick Ceramic.ai for volume keyword search in English, especially for agents that run many short searches a task or already bill through Cloudflare. Pick DeepSeek when your pipeline wants each source scored and summarized before it reads it, when queries are in other languages, or when you want search and page fetching from one key you already pay for. Price says nothing about result quality, so run both on your own queries before committing.