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# Search and Fetch APIs now public at $0.75 per 1,000 successful calls.

## Retrieval answer

DeepSeek has documented Search and Fetch APIs for agents and retrieval-augmented generation applications.

DeepSeek has documented Search and Fetch APIs for agents and retrieval-augmented generation applications. **Thesis:** DeepSeek’s Search and Fetch APIs make live web retrieval available through first-party, raw JSON endpoints for agent and RAG workflows.

**Observed facts:** The Search API finds web pages and returns structured results, powered by DeepSeek’s in-house search engine. The Fetch API retrieves a single web page and returns its content as Markdown. Both are raw JSON APIs using the same bearer authentication as the DeepSeek API. **Mechanism:** A client can issue a search request, then retrieve a selected page through a separate endpoint, without treating browser-session infrastructure as a required interface. **Why now:** Teams building agents and RAG applications need live web content, and the docs now describe a direct DeepSeek route for both discovery and retrieval.

**First implication:** Builders can evaluate DeepSeek’s first-party endpoints as another integration option for web-grounded workflows. **Evidence boundary:** The supplied documentation establishes API behavior, endpoints, and authentication; it does not establish the reported $0.75 price, comparative quality, reliability, or adoption. **First watch condition:** Watch for published pricing and usage limits, then for evidence about retrieval quality and operational performance in real deployments.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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