DeepSeek launches Search and Fetch APIs priced at $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

DeepSeek released Search and Fetch APIs giving agents and RAG applications access to live web content. Search returns structured results from DeepSeek's in-house engine, while Fetch converts a single page to Markdown; both are JSON APIs using the same bearer auth and priced at $0.75 per 1000 successful requests.

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