DeepSeek Search Tool

DeepSeek has launched web search tool which costs $0.75/1000 request.

It cheaper than the competitors like Exa.

Failed calls, timeouts and empty results are excluded from billing.

And count can go up to 50 (no extra charges) and you can get content as well using need_content param

How to use it?

curl https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <DeepSeek API Key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "latest deepseek release",
    "count": 5,
    "need_content": true
  }'

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/