{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "deepseek-search-api", "name": "DeepSeek Search and Fetch API", "vendor": "DeepSeek", "vendorUrl": "https://www.deepseek.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "DeepSeek's Search and Fetch API gives agents live web results from DeepSeek's in-house search engine and single pages as Markdown, through two REST endpoints on an ordinary DeepSeek API key, billed per successful request.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-search-api.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "The same DeepSeek API key as the model endpoints, sent as a bearer token. Keys carry no scopes, so a search key can also spend the balance on models. Rate limits are per account, whichever key is used.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$0.75 per 1,000 successful requests for Search and the same for Fetch, from a prepaid balance. Only an HTTP 200 with a result is billed, and `count` doesn't change the price. Server-side search through DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code or Codex is free until 31 October 2026 at 16:00 UTC (https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search).", "priceSummary": "$0.75 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Search and Fetch guide, the API reference or the pricing page, and an unauthenticated POST to both endpoints returned 401 `authentication_error` with no payment challenge (checked 2026-10-17).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.fetch" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "prepaid", "usage-priced", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.2, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 795, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 15, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 81, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 20, "reliability": 65, "schema": 55, "security": 38, "transparency": 60 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Search returns up to 50 results with a model-length summary, an authority tier and optional full text, and only successful non-empty calls are billed, at $0.75 per 1,000. It opened on 17 October 2026, with 5 requests a second per account, no OpenAPI file, no free tier, and data held in the PRC under a policy that permits training.", "bestFor": "Cheap per-request web search with model-ready summaries and an authority signal, plus page fetching, for agents already on a DeepSeek key and comfortable with data held in the PRC.", "strengths": [ "$0.75 per 1,000 successful requests for each endpoint, and failed calls, empty results and timeouts aren't billed", "Each result has a 100 to 200 character snippet, a 600 to 800 character summary for models, and full text on request", "Site, language, date and phrase operators in the query string, and up to 50 results a call", "Error table with ten status codes and when to retry, and both endpoints documented as read-only" ], "weaknesses": [ "Opened on 17 October 2026, with no service record of its own and no component for it on the status page", "5 requests a second per account for each endpoint, plus an unpublished per-domain limit on Fetch", "No OpenAPI file, no llms.txt, no official SDKs and no free tier for direct calls", "One unscoped key for search and models, no security.txt, and no prompt-injection guidance for returned page text", "Data stored in the PRC, used for training unless the customer opts out by email, and no retention period stated" ], "agentNotes": [ "Keep `query` to 128 characters and put filters in it as operators, such as `site:github.com lang:en after:2026-01-01`", "Leave `need_content` false and read `summary` first, then call Fetch on the URLs you keep", "Stay under 5 requests a second per account across all keys. On 408, 429 or 5xx wait and retry, since no Retry-After is documented", "Don't retry a Fetch 403 or 404 unchanged. The page is blocked by policy, unreachable or has no Markdown", "Don't send private queries or an end user's IP in `localization`. Data is stored in the PRC" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 81, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 20, "reliability": 65, "schema": 55, "security": 38, "transparency": 35 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"query\":\"DeepSeek V4 release\",\"count\":5,\"need_content\":true}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/deepseek-search-api" }, "sameCompany": [ "deepseek-api" ], "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Search", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.75, "note": "Successful non-empty results only. 1 to 50 results at the same price" }, { "item": "Fetch", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 0.75, "note": "One URL per request, billed only when page content comes back" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.", "domain": "deepseek.com", "domainRegistered": "2000-08-13", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-open-platform-terms-of-service.html", "privacy": "https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-policy.html", "statusPage": "https://status.deepseek.com", "changelog": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "deepseek.com was registered in 2000, long before the company, so domain age flatters it (per the deepseek-api listing).", "The Open Platform terms (effective 29 April 2026) are governed by PRC law and assign Outputs to the customer. The privacy policy (10 February 2026) names Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.", "www.deepseek.com/.well-known/security.txt and deepseek.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 17 October 2026, and api-docs.deepseek.com answers every path with the docs page.", "www.deepseek.com/robots.txt allows all user agents. api-docs.deepseek.com has no robots.txt. platform.deepseek.com answered with a 202 holding page and wasn't read.", "The status page has a Search Service component, grouped under Chat Service, and no component named for the Search or Fetch API." ], "score": 84 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api.json", "live": { "slug": "deepseek-search-api", "probe": { "target": "https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:36.047087455Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 319, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 271, "p95ms24h": 319, "samples24h": 24, "samples30d": 24, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.deepseek.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:50:57.753702183Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:36.047087455Z" } }, "answer": "DeepSeek Search and Fetch API scores 53.2 (D) on agent readiness against SearchAPI.io's 51.2 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. SearchAPI.io leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "searchapi-io", "name": "SearchAPI.io", "vendor": "SearchApi", "vendorUrl": "https://www.searchapi.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "SERP scraping API returning parsed JSON from Google and its verticals, Bing, Baidu, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, YouTube, Amazon, TikTok, ad libraries and travel sites, over 150 engine endpoints behind one GET URL.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/searchapi-io.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key as the `api_key` query parameter or `Authorization: Bearer`. The hosted MCP uses OAuth in the browser, or an `X-MCP-Token` header for programmatic clients.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "100 free requests on signup, no card. Developer $40 a month for 10,000 searches ($4 per 1,000), Production $100 for 35,000, BigData $250 for 100,000, Scale $500 for 250,000, Octo tiers from $900 for 500,000 down to $1 per 1,000 at 5M. Only successful (HTTP 200) searches are charged (https://www.searchapi.io/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$4 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 on pricing, docs or MCP pages (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google", "openapi": "https://www.searchapi.io/openapi/google.yaml", "registryName": "io.searchapi/mcp", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "search.serp", "search.news", "search.images" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "mcp", "closed-source" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 51.2, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 849, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 52, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 30, "reliability": 90, "schema": 59, "security": 28, "transparency": 60 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "99.9% SLA on every plan and no incidents on the status page since August. MCP exposes over 100 tools with no toolsets.", "bestFor": "Agents that need parsed results from many engines, especially shopping, ads, travel and social sources, at a low price per search.", "strengths": [ "99.9% SLA on every plan and no incidents on the status page since August", "Only HTTP 200 searches are billed", "$4 per 1,000 on the entry plan, falling to $1 at 5 million a month", "Over 150 engine endpoints, including ad libraries, TikTok and travel sites", "OpenAPI 3.0 for the Google engine with typed enums" ], "weaknesses": [ "MCP exposes over 100 tools with no toolsets", "API key accepted as `api_key` in the query string, and the registry entry puts the MCP token in the URL", "No changelog, no llms.txt and no official SDKs", "No x402 and no per-call option. Every account starts with a browser signup", "Returns SERP snippets only, and no prompt-injection guidance for scraped AI answers" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key as `Authorization: Bearer`, not `api_key=` in the URL", "Connect the MCP through OAuth or the `X-MCP-Token` header, not the registry's `?token=` URL", "Call the REST API with `engine=` when context is tight. The MCP loads over 100 tool definitions", "Page Google results with `page`. `num` is fixed at 10", "Pace bursts. One hour can use at most 20 per cent of the plan's monthly searches" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 51.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 52, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 30, "reliability": 90, "schema": 59, "security": 28, "transparency": 48 }, "provenanceScore": 72 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -G https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SEARCHAPI_API_KEY\" -d engine=google --data-urlencode \"q=chatgpt\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http searchapi https://www.searchapi.io/mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/searchapi-io" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Developer plan, per 1,000 searches", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 4, "note": "10,000 searches for $40 a month" }, { "item": "Developer plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 40, "note": "10,000 searches" }, { "item": "Production plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "35,000 searches, includes Legal Protection Guarantee" }, { "item": "BigData plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 250, "note": "100,000 searches" }, { "item": "Scale plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 500, "note": "250,000 searches" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "SearchApi, LLC", "domain": "searchapi.io", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-13", "domainNote": "Registered in 2017 and transferred on 2022-05-26.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.searchapi.io/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.searchapi.io/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.searchapi.io", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io.json", "live": { "slug": "searchapi-io", "probe": { "target": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:55.044150271Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 114, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 113, "p95ms24h": 268, "samples24h": 253, "samples30d": 4435, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.searchapi.io", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:51:50.588727205Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.searchapi/mcp", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T05:11:56.292414565Z" } ], "securityTxt": { "url": "https://searchapi.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:52:31.537307147Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "searchapi.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:18:23.338953261Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.searchapi.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:20:07.756567824Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:31:54.23212781Z", "fingerprint": "0040ccfc04d5" }, { "url": "https://www.searchapi.io/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:20:03.167881556Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:31:48.862746192Z", "fingerprint": "f7ad078683cd" }, { "url": "https://www.searchapi.io/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:20:05.746938674Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:31:51.899710098Z", "fingerprint": "b7b17a2a8e51" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:55.044150271Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "DeepSeek", "b": "SearchApi", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search", "b": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$0.75 per 1,000 requests", "b": "$4 per 1,000 requests", "name": "Price for web search" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.searchapi/mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-17", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2026-04-11", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2026-04-11", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "3/5 (4)", "b": "3/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "DeepSeek Search and Fetch API scores 53.2 (D) on agent readiness against SearchAPI.io's 51.2 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. SearchAPI.io leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, DeepSeek Search and Fetch API or SearchAPI.io?" }, { "answer": "DeepSeek Search and Fetch API, at $0.75 per 1,000 requests against $4 per 1,000 requests for SearchAPI.io. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.", "question": "Which is cheaper for web search, DeepSeek Search and Fetch API or SearchAPI.io?" }, { "answer": "DeepSeek Search and Fetch API needs an API key. SearchAPI.io takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do DeepSeek Search and Fetch API and SearchAPI.io need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. DeepSeek Search and Fetch API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search and SearchAPI.io at https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search.", "question": "Can an agent call DeepSeek Search and Fetch API and SearchAPI.io without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 81 against 52", "Security \u0026 auth, 38 against 28", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 42 against 15" ], "also": [ "Cheaper for web search, $0.75 against $4 per 1,000 requests" ], "goodFor": "Cheap per-request web search with model-ready summaries and an authority signal, plus page fetching, for agents already on a DeepSeek key and comfortable with data held in the PRC.", "slug": "deepseek-search-api", "watchFor": "Opened on 17 October 2026, with no service record of its own and no component for it on the status page" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 90 against 65", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need parsed results from many engines, especially shopping, ads, travel and social sources, at a low price per search.", "slug": "searchapi-io", "watchFor": "MCP exposes over 100 tools with no toolsets" } ], "job": { "capability": "web.search", "name": "Web search" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-deepseek-search-api.json", "title": "Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs DeepSeek Search and Fetch API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-deepseek-search-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-searchapi-io.json", "title": "Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs SearchAPI.io", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-searchapi-io" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-deepseek-search-api.json", "title": "Brave Search API + MCP vs DeepSeek Search and Fetch API", "url": 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DeepSeek Search and Fetch API is cheaper for web search, $0.75 against $4 per 1,000 requests.\n\n- DeepSeek Search and Fetch API: grade D, 53.2/100, rank #795 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-search-api.json\n- SearchAPI.io: grade D, 51.2/100, rank #849 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/searchapi-io.json\n- Best web search APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/search/index.md\n- All 163 search comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/search/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### DeepSeek Search and Fetch API (D)\n\nGood for: Cheap per-request web search with model-ready summaries and an authority signal, plus page fetching, for agents already on a DeepSeek key and comfortable with data held in the PRC.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 81 against 52\n- Security \u0026 auth, 38 against 28\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 42 against 15\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Cheaper for web search, $0.75 against $4 per 1,000 requests\n\nWatch for: Opened on 17 October 2026, with no service record of its own and no component for it on the status page\n\n### SearchAPI.io (D)\n\nGood for: Agents that need parsed results from many engines, especially shopping, ads, travel and social sources, at a low price per search.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 90 against 65\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: MCP exposes over 100 tools with no toolsets\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | DeepSeek Search and Fetch API | SearchAPI.io | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 90 | SearchAPI.io +25 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 59 | SearchAPI.io +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 52 | DeepSeek Search and Fetch API +29 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 28 | DeepSeek Search and Fetch API +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | SearchAPI.io +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 15 | DeepSeek Search and Fetch API +27 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **53.2 · D** | **51.2 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | DeepSeek Search and Fetch API | SearchAPI.io |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | DeepSeek | SearchApi |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search` | `https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for web search | $0.75 per 1,000 requests | $4 per 1,000 requests |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.searchapi/mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-17 | none |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-04-11 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-04-11 |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**DeepSeek Search and Fetch API.** Search returns up to 50 results with a model-length summary, an authority tier and optional full text, and only successful non-empty calls are billed, at $0.75 per 1,000. It opened on 17 October 2026, with 5 requests a second per account, no OpenAPI file, no free tier, and data held in the PRC under a policy that permits training.\n\n**SearchAPI.io.** 99.9% SLA on every plan and no incidents on the status page since August. MCP exposes over 100 tools with no toolsets.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### DeepSeek Search and Fetch API\n\n1. Keep `query` to 128 characters and put filters in it as operators, such as `site:github.com lang:en after:2026-01-01`\n2. Leave `need_content` false and read `summary` first, then call Fetch on the URLs you keep\n3. Stay under 5 requests a second per account across all keys. On 408, 429 or 5xx wait and retry, since no Retry-After is documented\n4. Don't retry a Fetch 403 or 404 unchanged. The page is blocked by policy, unreachable or has no Markdown\n5. Don't send private queries or an end user's IP in `localization`. Data is stored in the PRC\n\n### SearchAPI.io\n\n1. Send the key as `Authorization: Bearer`, not `api_key=` in the URL\n2. Connect the MCP through OAuth or the `X-MCP-Token` header, not the registry's `?token=` URL\n3. Call the REST API with `engine=` when context is tight. The MCP loads over 100 tool definitions\n4. Page Google results with `page`. `num` is fixed at 10\n5. Pace bursts. One hour can use at most 20 per cent of the plan's monthly searches\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, DeepSeek Search and Fetch API or SearchAPI.io?\n\nDeepSeek Search and Fetch API scores 53.2 (D) on agent readiness against SearchAPI.io's 51.2 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. SearchAPI.io leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Which is cheaper for web search, DeepSeek Search and Fetch API or SearchAPI.io?\n\nDeepSeek Search and Fetch API, at $0.75 per 1,000 requests against $4 per 1,000 requests for SearchAPI.io. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do DeepSeek Search and Fetch API and SearchAPI.io need an API key?\n\nDeepSeek Search and Fetch API needs an API key. SearchAPI.io takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call DeepSeek Search and Fetch API and SearchAPI.io without installing anything?\n\nYes. DeepSeek Search and Fetch API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search and SearchAPI.io at https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-searchapi-io.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-searchapi-io.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"deepseek-search-api\", \"b\": \"searchapi-io\"}`. 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