Deepseek announced the API web search and crawling fee: 5 yuan for every 1000 successful requests

DeepSeek has announced that the DeepSeek API now supports web search and crawling, charging based on the number of requests, with a unit price of 5 yuan for every 1000 successful requests.

The announcement states that current users accessing the Search/Fetch interface through the Server-side tools in DeepSeek Harness/Claude Code/Codex will not be charged for these Search/Fetch interface calls at this time, and fees will start to be charged per call from 00:00 Beijing time on November 1, 2026.