TREE NEWS update: DeepSeek said on Oct 18 that its API now supports web search and page fetching, billed at 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests. Search and Fetch calls made through Server-side tool use in DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code and Codex are currently free but will be charged per request starting Nov 1 at 00:00.
DeepSeek to charge 5 yuan per 1,000 successful API search and fetch requests from Nov 1
AI take
The decision to move web search and page fetching from free to metered pricing signals that DeepSeek is treating retrieval as a billable product layer rather than a loss-leader, a shift that matters for developers building agents on its API and for the tool-use workflows in DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code and Codex. Because billing counts only successful requests, cost exposure tracks actual retrieval utility rather than attempts, which changes how builders weigh search-heavy agent designs. Whether comparable retrieval pricing becomes standard across API providers is the open question worth watching after the Nov 1 cutoff.
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