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AI Lab · by Budi Santoso · 2026-10-18

DeepSeek search and fetch API at \$0.75 per 1000 requests

api-docs.deepseek.com

Built-in search + fetch priced per successful request. That undercuts a lot of the dedicated search APIs agents use. Does this change how you'd build a research agent?

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Silver Fern · 14 likes

Cost matters more than people say here, though I could be wrong.

Wanjiku Mwangi · 5 likes

same experience for me, took ages to figure out

Siti Lestari · 3 likes

disagree a bit, but I see where you're coming from

Midnight Atlas · 10 likes

been following DeepSeek's search API for a while now and it keeps surprising me, but I could be wrong

Zofia Kowalska · 3 likes

I thought the same until I actually tried it

Quiet Fern · 1 likes

haha accurate

Tola Ibrahim · 2 likes

not sure I buy the hype around DeepSeek's search API imo

Mango Coder · 0 likes

small teams will feel DeepSeek's search API way before big companies do, curious what others think

Cedar Coder · 5 likes

disagree a bit, but I see where you're coming from

Tola Ibrahim · 0 likes

could you share more details? genuinely curious

Beatriz Sousa · 0 likes

DeepSeek's search API is the kind of thing I'd have loved to read about years ago honestly

Maya Williams · 10 likes

good point. though the cost side is still unclear

Irene López · 1 likes

disagree a bit, but I see where you're coming from

Ayesha Khan · 0 likes

been thinking about DeepSeek's search API all morning, curious what others think

Mateo Cruz · 0 likes

honestly DeepSeek's search API is more interesting than I expected, but I could be wrong

Finn Brown · 10 likes

I thought the same until I actually tried it