Noesion Radarnoesion.ai
Pricing2026-10-17

DeepSeek began charging for its Search and Fetch APIs. The price is $0.75 per 1,000 requests. Competitors charge at least $5 for the same volume. The APIs launched alongside DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. That model scores 77.0 on the DeepSWE v1.1 benchmark. Failed requests are not billed. Billing starts on November 1. Each endpoint is capped at 5 requests per second. The pricing is global with no regional limits. China exempted API access from new AI export controls. The free period runs until November 1.

What changed

Search and Fetch API calls were free through DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code, and Codex.

What it unlocks

Building agents with live data at a fraction of prior retrieval costs.

  • $0.75 per 1,000 Search and Fetch API calls
  • $5 to $12 per 1,000 competitor requests
  • 77.0 DeepSWE v1.1 benchmark score
  • 5 requests per second per account cap

What you need to act on it

  • billing starts 00:00 Beijing time on November 1

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