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DeepSeek Search API pricing
100,000 standard searches a month cost $75.00, pay as you go, on DeepSeek Search API.
Checked Oct 24, 2026 on DeepSeek Search API's own pricing page
- Pay as you go
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Every DeepSeek Search API plan
| Plan | Covers | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Included | Past the allowance | Concurrent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go fits your volume | 10K to 1M search calls | not published | not offered | pay per use | $0.75 per 1,000 requests | not published |
Your job
What DeepSeek Search API bills you for
What you pay
DeepSeek Search API is also sold as one of the AI extraction APIs (100,000 AI extraction operations a month: no public price).
About this price and its sources
DeepSeek's Search and Fetch APIs cost $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests each; empty results, failures and timeouts are free. What a search returns and its limits.
Cite this price
100,000 standard searches a month cost $75.00, pay as you go, on DeepSeek Search API. Price read from https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/ on Oct 24, 2026. Scraping API Prices, https://scrapingapiprices.com/deepseek-search-pricing
How the bill builds up
- Base rate1 requestper request
- × JavaScript renderingNot requiredNot part of this workload
- × Premium proxyNot required
- ÷ Success rate1Failed requests are not billed
- = Billed units per search1 requestFrom this bill’s calculation
- = per 1,000 searches$0.75Pay as you go
Credits and multipliers
JavaScript rendering
Billed failures
Success rate
Concurrency
Free tier
Renews monthly The bill at your volume
100,000 search calls · $75.00
Read the chart as a table
| Volume | Bill | Offer |
|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $7.50 | Pay as you go |
| 25,000 | $18.75 | Pay as you go |
| 50,000 | $37.50 | Pay as you go |
| 100,000 | $75.00 | Pay as you go |
| 250,000 | $187.50 | Pay as you go |
| 500,000 | $375.00 | Pay as you go |
| 1,000,000 | $750.00 | Pay as you go |
Follow each billed unit
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Successes you want
100,000 standard searches
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
- × 1
Attempts you are billed for
100,000 standard searches
DeepSeek Search API does not bill failed fetches, so failures cost nothing here.
- × 1
What the meter counts
100,000 requests
One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.
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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.
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.
100,000 standard searches → 100,000 requests → Pay as you go $75.00/mo = $0.75 per 1,000 searches
What makes it cost more
One page is not always one billed unit. These are DeepSeek Search API's published charges for each kind of work; failed requests are not billed.
| Work | Costs | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| A search | 1 request | request | source |
| Markdown output | 1 request | request | source |
Limits and terms
What DeepSeek Search API publishes beyond the price: the limits a job runs into and the terms that change what a plan is worth. Each line links the page it comes from and the day it was read.
Speed, concurrency and sessions
- Search is limited to 100 requests a second and Fetch to 25, each counted separately per account whichever API key is used; Fetch also has a per-domain limit, and requests over any of these limits get HTTP 429. source, read Oct 19, 2026
Credits, renewal and billing
- Charges are taken from the account's topped-up or granted balance, the granted balance first; an empty balance returns HTTP 402. source, read Oct 17, 2026
Other terms
- A search query is 1 to 128 characters and returns 1 to 50 results (10 by default); its operators include site:, -site:, exact phrases, lang:, after: and before:. source, read Oct 17, 2026
- Fetch returns HTTP 403 when DeepSeek's security policy rejects a request and 404 when it cannot get usable content, for example because the site's policy blocks it. source, read Oct 17, 2026
Cheaper for this job
Same 100,000 standard search calls with one default-depth result set per call, ranked by what you would actually be billed. APIs without a full public price aren't ranked.
What DeepSeek Search API does not publish
- DeepSeek does not publish a minimum top-up amount.
- DeepSeek does not say whether Fetch renders JavaScript or routes requests through proxies.
What the DeepSeek Search API is
DeepSeek opened two standalone web APIs to everyone on October 17, 2026, alongside its models: Search, which answers a query from DeepSeek’s own in-house search engine, and Fetch, which takes one URL and returns the page as Markdown. Both use the same API key and the same prepaid balance as DeepSeek’s models (DeepSeek news, Oct 17, 2026; Search & Fetch guide, checked Oct 17, 2026).
A search returns 1 to 50 results, 10 by default. Each result carries a relevance score from 0 to 3, a short snippet for display, a 600 to 800 character summary written for a model to read, the page date when known, and an authority tier from 0 to 4, where 3 and above marks a highly authoritative source. Setting need_content adds the page text to each result. Queries take site:, -site:, exact phrases, lang:, after: and before: (Search & Fetch guide, checked Oct 17, 2026).
How billing works
Search and Fetch each cost $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests. A request is billed only when it returns HTTP 200 with a result: a search must return at least one result and a fetch must return page content, so failures, empty searches and timeouts cost nothing. Billing is per request, not per token or per result, so a 50-result search costs the same as a 1-result one. There is no subscription and no monthly fee: charges come off a topped-up or granted balance, granted credit first (DeepSeek pricing; Search & Fetch guide, checked Oct 17, 2026).
That makes 100,000 searches a month $75 and a million $750. There is no free allowance for calls you make yourself. The calls DeepSeek’s own server-side tools make when you run its models in DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code or Codex are free until billing starts at 00:00 Beijing time on November 1, 2026, which is 16:00 UTC on October 31 (DeepSeek pricing, checked Oct 17, 2026).
Before you buy
Search allows 100 requests a second per account and Fetch 25, counted separately whichever key you use; requests over the limit get HTTP 429. A hundred a second is up to 8,640,000 searches a day, $6,480 of billing, so for most workloads the bill arrives long before the limit. Fetch also has a per-domain limit whose figure DeepSeek does not publish, so a crawler reading many pages from one site can meet it first. A query can be at most 128 characters (Search & Fetch guide, checked Oct 19, 2026).
Fetch is a page reader, not a scraping API: DeepSeek does not say that it renders JavaScript or routes through proxies, and it returns 403 when its security policy rejects a request and 404 when a site’s policy or an error leaves no usable content. Its $0.75 per 1,000 pages is listed with the AI scraping APIs but not priced there, because it converts a page to Markdown and extracts no fields. DeepSeek publishes no minimum top-up and says its prices may change (Search & Fetch guide; DeepSeek pricing, checked Oct 17, 2026).
Who it suits
It suits agent and retrieval builders who want results already summarized for a model, with an authority signal to filter on, and teams that already hold a DeepSeek balance. Paying only for searches that find something helps any workload with many narrow queries. On price per search alone it is not the lowest: Ceramic.ai lists $0.25 per 1,000 queries pay as you go (Ceramic.ai pricing, checked Oct 17, 2026), and the web search API table prices every option for your own volume.
DeepSeek Search API head to head
Both bills for the same job, and the volume where the cheaper one changes.