# DeepSeek Search & Fetch

by [DeepSeek](/organizations/deepseek/)

- **ID:** `e6529d49-d8b7-43c4-87e6-a0d2188aa257`
- **JSON API:** /api/v1/catalog/products/e6529d49-d8b7-43c4-87e6-a0d2188aa257/
- **Slug:** deepseek-search-fetch
- **Product website:** https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
- **Documentation:** https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
- **Pricing:** https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
- **Organization website:** https://www.deepseek.com
- **Categories:** [Search-Grounded LLM API](/categories/search-grounded-llm-api/)

## Description

Standalone Search and Fetch APIs for finding live web pages and retrieving page content as Markdown for agents and RAG applications.

## AI-native score

**Tier D — 18/100 · research coverage 58/100.** This grade measures agent-readiness and is not a substitute for your own security or vendor-risk review. See [methodology](/methodology/) for how the grade and coverage are computed. Unresearched decision fields score zero in the grade.

| Component | Applies | Raw | Effective weight | Nominal weight | Contribution |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Integration | Yes | 1/10 | 35% | 35% | 3.5 |
| Trust | Yes | 0/6 | 30% | 30% | 0.0 |
| Portability | Yes | 3/4 | 20% | 20% | 15.0 |
| Security | Yes | 0/4 | 15% | 15% | 0.0 |

- **Integration signals:** Native connector (+1)
- **Portability signals:** Standard protocol access (+1); No proprietary-SDK lock-in (+1); Documented provider swap (+1)

## Trust & Data Policy

- **WebMCP:** – No
- **Headless signup:** – No
- **Sandbox environment:** – No
- **Standard protocol access:** ✓ Yes
- **No proprietary-SDK lock-in:** ✓ Yes
- **Documented provider swap:** ✓ Yes
- **Self-hostable:** – No
- **Open source:** – No
- **Not yet researched:** llms.txt, Trust center, Multi-factor authentication, Zero data retention, No generative AI training, Hard budget caps, Data export, Data import, Open standards

## Confirmed absences

These decision fields were researched and confirmed absent — not available based on current evidence, until contrary information supersedes the finding. Each carries the check performed, the page checked, and the date, so you can act on the negative without repeating the research. A label-scoped absence applies only to its label (e.g. no SOC 2 does not mean no certifications).

- **A2A servers** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-18. Checked the complete standalone Search & Fetch developer integration guide for Agent2Agent protocol support, Agent Cards or A2A endpoints; none is documented. Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
- **Agent skills** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-18. Read the complete product-specific Search & Fetch developer integration guide for an installable agent skill, SKILL.md package or skill installation instructions. The guide documents raw HTTP endpoints and agent-tool server-side calls, with no vendor-published Search & Fetch agent skill documented. Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
- **API specs** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-19. Read the API reference index, Search and Fetch endpoint references and Search & Fetch guide. The references present human-readable request and response schemas, but the index and references link no downloadable OpenAPI, gRPC or GraphQL specification for Search & Fetch. Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/api/deepseek-api/
- **Command-line interfaces** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-18. Read the complete Search & Fetch developer guide and both API usage workflows for a product CLI; curl HTTP examples are documented, with no Search & Fetch CLI distribution or commands. Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
- **Developer kits** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-18. Read the complete Search & Fetch developer guide and both API usage workflows for a dedicated Search & Fetch SDK; examples use raw curl and Python requests, with no dedicated SDK documented. Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
- **Headless signup** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-19. Read the API getting-started documentation and follow its API-key link to the Open Platform login/signup flow. The documented setup obtains an API key from the web platform; the rendered signup offers email verification controls. No API or CLI signup procedure is documented in this onboarding route or the API authentication index. Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/
- **MCP servers** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-18. Checked the complete standalone Search & Fetch developer integration guide for an official MCP server or connection setup; only raw Search and Fetch HTTP APIs are documented. Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
- **Open source** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-18. Read the Open Platform service terms, including access rights and intellectual property provisions, for a Search & Fetch source-code license or open-source distribution. None is documented for the hosted Search & Fetch service. Source: https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-open-platform-terms-of-service.html
- **Sandbox environment** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-19. Read the Search & Fetch developer guide, including endpoint setup, authentication, errors, billing and rate limits. It documents the production api.deepseek.com endpoints with account-level limits and per-request billing, with no separate sandbox, development or test environment documented. Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
- **Self-hostable** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-18. Checked the complete Search & Fetch pricing section and its linked product guide for a self-hosted or on-premises Search/Fetch edition. It presents only account-balance-funded hosted APIs; no self-hosting offer is documented. Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
- **Web-MCP** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-18. Read the Search & Fetch developer integration guide for browser modelContext APIs, WebMCP polyfills or in-page tool registration. It only documents server-side HTTP Search and Fetch APIs. Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/

## Security & Compliance

**Compliance certifications:** Not yet researched.
**Access controls:** Not yet researched.

## Capabilities

- **Web Scraping** — Extract structured data from websites at scale.
- **Web Search** — Find web pages relevant to a query and return ranked search results.

## Jobs To Be Done

- **Build retrieval-augmented AI applications** — Connect AI applications to retrieved knowledge to ground generated responses.
- **Search the web** — Find web pages relevant to a query.

## Offers

**Pricing page:** https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing

### Search & Fetch

- search: 0.75 USD per 1,000 successful search requests; payment unknown; commitment unknown
- fetch: 0.75 USD per 1,000 successful fetch requests; payment unknown; commitment unknown
- search-cny: 5 CNY per 1,000 successful search requests; payment unknown; commitment unknown
- fetch-cny: 5 CNY per 1,000 successful fetch requests; payment unknown; commitment unknown
search-cny: Rate published in the Chinese Search & Fetch guide.
fetch-cny: Rate published in the Chinese Search & Fetch guide.
Charges apply only to HTTP 200 responses with non-empty search results or fetched page content. Failed requests, empty search results, and timeouts are not billed. Search result count does not change the request price. Fees draw from topped-up or granted balances. Server-side Search and Fetch calls through DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code, or Codex are currently free; per-request billing for these calls starts at 00:00 Beijing time on November 1, 2026.
Search finds web pages and Fetch retrieves a page as Markdown. Each API permits 5 requests per second per account, independently. Fetch also has a per-domain QPS limit.
**Billing:** Pay As You Go
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing


## Reviews

No approved reviews yet.

## Benchmarks

No benchmarks listed.

## Documentation

The primary documentation link is at the top of this page. No other documentation links listed.

## API Specs

Confirmed absent based on current evidence — no API specs. See Confirmed absences above for method, source, and date.

## MCP Servers

Confirmed absent based on current evidence — no MCP servers. See Confirmed absences above for method, source, and date.

## A2A Servers

Confirmed absent based on current evidence — no A2A servers. See Confirmed absences above for method, source, and date.

## Native Connectors

- [Claude](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations/claude_code/) — Claude Code web search

## Command-Line Interfaces

Confirmed absent based on current evidence — no command-line interfaces. See Confirmed absences above for method, source, and date.

## Developer Kits

Confirmed absent based on current evidence — no developer kits. See Confirmed absences above for method, source, and date.

## Agent Skills

Confirmed absent based on current evidence — no agent skills. See Confirmed absences above for method, source, and date.

## Related products

- [Firecrawl](/organizations/firecrawl/products/firecrawl/) by Firecrawl — Tier A. Same job: Build retrieval-augmented AI applications (not assessed), Search the web (not assessed).
- [You.com](/organizations/you-com/products/you-com/) by You.com — Tier B. Same job: Build retrieval-augmented AI applications (not assessed), Search the web (not assessed).
- [SerpApi](/organizations/serpapi/products/serpapi/) by SerpApi — Tier C. Same job: Build retrieval-augmented AI applications (not assessed), Search the web (not assessed).
- [Exa](/organizations/exa/products/exa/) by Exa — Tier B. Same job: Search the web (Finishes end to end).
- [Parallel](/organizations/parallel-ai/products/parallel/) by Parallel — Tier B. Same job: Search the web (not assessed).
- [Tavily](/organizations/tavily/products/tavily/) by Tavily — Tier B. Same job: Search the web (Finishes end to end).


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