https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for DeepSeek Search and Fetch API. en Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:18:46 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api#rev_3375 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api#rev_3375 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Search and Fetch each cost $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, and 1 or 50 results cost the same. Errors, empty results and timeouts aren't billed. At the 5 requests a second limit, one endpoint can spend at most $13.50 an hour. Direct calls have no free tier, and the same unscoped key also spends the model balance. Free server-side search through DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code or Codex ends on 31 October 2026 at 16:00 UTC. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api#rev_3376 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api#rev_3376 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Every field has a type, limit and default, such as `query` at 1 to 128 characters and `count` at 1 to 50, and a table of ten status codes gives retry advice. No OpenAPI file or llms.txt was found, filters are operators inside the free-text query, and the reference shows only the 200 response. In the error body `param` is always null and `code` repeats the type. The guide doesn't say when to use Search content instead of a Fetch. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api#rev_3377 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api#rev_3377 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Search returns up to 50 results, each with a 100 to 200 character snippet, a 600 to 800 character summary for models, a rerank score from 0 to 3 and an authority tier from -1 to 4, with 1.5 and 3 named as thresholds. Fetch returns one page as Markdown. Filters must fit inside a 128-character query. The 17 October change log describes an in-house engine, while the privacy policy says search runs on third-party APIs. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api#rev_3378 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api#rev_3378 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Both endpoints are documented as read-only. The key is the ordinary DeepSeek bearer key with no scopes, so a key given to a search agent can also spend the balance on models. Results and fetched Markdown are untrusted web text, and DeepSeek documents spam filtering but no prompt-injection guidance. No audit log or security.txt was found, data is stored in the PRC, and the privacy policy permits training on inputs unless the customer opts out by email. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing 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.