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DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

SteadyVane has taken 8 readings of DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests since Oct 18, 2026: 199 upvotes at the first reading, 585 at the latest (+386). Its biggest one-day gain was +316 on Oct 18, 2026.

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first seen Oct 18, 2026 · last seen 32 h ago · published Oct 18, 2026

Day by day

Day (UTC)	upvotes	Change
Oct 19, 2026	585	+70
Oct 18, 2026	515	+316

Each day's last reading. Change: against the day before (after days with no reading: since the last day that has one); the first day shows the change within that day.

Posted by	fagnerbrack

Featured on 1 day: October 19, 2026.

In the brief

DeepSeek launched Search and Fetch APIs for agents, each billed per successful request
A flat per-request price is easy to budget; whether the results are any good is a separate question.

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