DeepSeek opens its Search and Fetch APIs to everyone at $0.75 per 1,000 calls per endpoint, free through Claude Code and Codex until October 31
DeepSeek turns its in-house search engine into a developer API, launched alongside the new model. Pricing, the free period, and which agent tools it is courting.
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- The Search and Fetch endpoints run on DeepSeek's in-house search engine, which it says serves hundreds of millions of requests a day worldwide.
- Each endpoint costs $0.75 per 1,000 calls.
- Search and Fetch calls made through server-side tools in DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code and Codex are free for DeepSeek API users until billing starts on October 31, 2026 at 16:00 UTC.
- V4.1-Flash-1017 went live the same day on the website, app and API, optimized for DeepSeek Harness, Tencent CodeBuddy, WorkBuddy and others; DeepSeek recommends DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-rc.1 or later.
Builder's takeAgent web access now has a plainly priced option from a Chinese provider. For a content backend that looks things up, like PandaClaws, use the free window before October 31 to compare hit rate and latency against your current search; before adopting it, count searches per task, because that number runs away easily in agents.