Deepseek Announces API Web Search and Scraping Fees: RMB 5 per 1,000 Successful Requests

Beating AI News Flash: DeepSeek announces that the DeepSeek API now supports web search and fetch, billed per request at a unit price of ¥5 per 1,000 successful requests.

Currently, when users use the DeepSeek API in DeepSeek Harness/Claude Code/Codex, they already access the Search/Fetch interfaces through server-side tool calls. These Search/Fetch interface calls are currently not billed, and will begin to be charged per call starting from 00:00 Beijing Time on November 1, 2026.