Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (IT Home · Oct 18, 2026)

DeepSeek API adds web search and scraping at ¥5 per 1,000 calls

KEY FACTS

The DeepSeek API now supports two new features: web search and web scraping.
Both features are called through the API and use the same Bearer authentication as DeepSeek.
Web search returns titles, body text, and raw JSON, while web scraping returns the content of a single web page.
Pricing is ¥5 per 1,000 successful requests.

KEY DATA

¥5 per 1,000 successful requestsUnit price

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

Competition among large-model APIs is extending from model capability to web-connected retrieval. DeepSeek has packaged search and scraping into its API, letting developers obtain real-time information without building their own crawlers and lowering the barrier to RAG applications. The ¥5-per-1,000-calls pricing continues its low-price strategy and may force other vendors to follow, making web connectivity a standard API feature.

Source: IT Home report