DeepSeek Search and Fetch API to Charge Certain Platforms Starting November
DeepSeek announced that starting November 1, 2026, its Web Search and Fetch APIs will be billed per use for Harness, Claude Code, and Codex users. The fee is 5 yuan for every 1,000 successful requests, with failed or result-less requests incurring no charge.
DeepSeek Search and Fetch APIs to Become Paid Services for Certain Platforms Starting in November
DeepSeek has announced that its Web Search and Fetch APIs will begin charging Harness, Claude Code, and Codex users on a per-use basis starting November 1, 2026. Both interfaces will be priced at 5 yuan for every 1,000 successful requests, with failed requests or those yielding no results being free of charge.
Search is powered by DeepSeek's proprietary search engine and returns structured web results. Fetch is used to scrape a single webpage and return its content in Markdown format. Each service is rate-limited to 5 requests per second. Both APIs had previously been offered free of charge on the aforementioned platforms.
DeepSeek API Docs
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/zh-cn/guides/search
