Deepseek announces API web search and scraping fees: 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests.

PANews October 18 news: DeepSeek has issued an announcement that the DeepSeek API now supports web search and crawling, billed per request at a unit price of 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests. The announcement states that when users currently 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 starting from 00:00 Beijing Time on November 1, 2026, call fees will be charged per request.