DeepSeek pricing: web search API
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$0.75per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run DeepSeek through our web search API benchmark yet.Half of the 569 plans we rank by price cost $3.992 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 85% of the 569 plans.browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.browserfoundry by keirolabs, Context.dev and Exa are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Topped-up balance DeepSeek's only plan
Call:
POST / DeepSeek's only call for this APIAPI: Web search API one of DeepSeek's 2 APIs
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text.
- A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend the whole balance on calls.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You set thev1/ tools/ search Content-Typeheader to "application/json". You can also sendcount,ori_,question localizationandneed_. The call returns the matching web pages.content - Who can get it: anyone with a DeepSeek Open Platform account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
DeepSeek: web search API alternatives
DeepSeek alternatives: every web search API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planDeepSeek, top-up | Context.dev, $900 yearly | CrawlerData, $375 pack, Standard, GET /customsearch/v1 | AlterLab, $300 pack, Deposit $300, POST /api/v1/search, Search the web | Scrapingdog, $7,000 monthly | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.75 | $0.75 | $0.75 | $0.752 | $0.757 |
| Completeness | 33% | 17% | 17% | 0% | 0% |
| Billing | pay first | yearly | pay first | pay first | monthly |
| Pay | any amount | $900 | $375 | $300 | $7,000 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 100,000 pages a month | 500,000 calls | 399,000 calls | 9,250,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone with a DeepSeek Open Platform account | anyone aged 18 or over | anyone 18 or older using it for a business or profession | anyone at least 18 years old, acting in a professional or commercial capacity | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Date
- Author, not in the answer
- Text
- Summary, not in the answer
- Links, not in the answer
- Answer, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.75 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | pay first |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Most per search | 50 |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Search the web for a query and return a ranked list of structured results. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | "Subject to your compliance to applicable law and our Terms, you have the following rights regarding the Inputs and Outputs of the Services: (1) You retain any rights, title, and interests—if any—in the Inputs you submit, (2) We assign any rights, title, and interests—if any—in the Outputs of the Services to you, (3) You may apply the Inputs and Outputs of the Services to a wide range of use cases, including personal use, academic research, derivative product development, training other models (such as model distillation), etc." "As a user of this Open Platform Service, you should procure that both of you and your end users comply with the requirements of the "DeepSeek Terms of Use" (especially regarding user conduct norms), adhering to principles of voluntariness, equality, fairness, and good faith, without violating any applicable law, not using this service to infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of others or to seek improper gains, and not disrupting the normal order of the internet platform." "Without our permission, you or your end users shall not use any trademarks, service marks, trade names, domain names, website names, company logos (LOGOs), URLs, or other prominent brand features related to the Services, including but not limited to "DeepSeek," etc., in any way, either singly or in combination." "You shall clearly disclose to your end users that the Output content is generated by AI, and may contain errors or omissions and are for reference only." "You represent and warrant that Services may not be used in or for the benefit of, or exported, re-exported, or transferred (a) to or within any country subject to comprehensive sanctions under Export Control and Sanctions Laws, (b) to any party on any restricted party lists under any applicable Export Control and Sanctions Laws that would prohibit your use of Services." |
| Per second | 100 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: count, ori_question, localization, need_content |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/tools/search |
| Plan | Topped-up balance |
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| Who can get it | anyone with a DeepSeek Open Platform account |
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold
relevance score, title, URL, snippet, summary, page content, site name, site icon URL, publication date, authority tier