DeepSeek opens its Search and Fetch APIs

News17 Oct 2026By Lawrence Ladomery

DeepSeek's in-house search engine is now available to developers through two paid APIs.

Alongside the V4.1-Flash-1017 release on 17 October 2026, DeepSeek made its Search and Fetch APIs generally available. DeepSeek's changelog says the same in-house search engine now powers search on its website and in its API.

DeepSeek lists the price as $0.75 per 1,000 calls per endpoint. It says server-side calls made from DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code and Codex are free until billing starts on 31 October 2026 at 16:00 UTC.

The setup guide and terms are in DeepSeek's announcement.

Sources

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017: Wish-Driven Programming Made Real

Related model families

Family	Developer	Weights	Licence	Models
DeepSeek	DeepSeek	Open	MIT	3

Hosts that can deploy the models

Host	LLM hosting plans	Model families
Amazon AWS	Amazon EC2, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker	Mistral, DeepSeek, Gemma, gpt-oss, Llama, Qwen
Google Cloud	Model Garden, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Compute Engine	Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, gpt-oss, Gemma
Microsoft Azure	Azure Machine Learning, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure GPU Virtual Machines	gpt-oss, Qwen, DeepSeek, Llama, Gemma, Mistral