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DeepSeek Search and Fetch: find the page, then read it
DeepSeek opened Search and Fetch APIs on October17 alongside Flash1017. Finding pages and reading them are separate steps; tool fees and model usage are separate too.
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The original narration, preserved as published. Relative dates refer to the episode’s coverage window.
A search result is not the page itself. DeepSeek opened its Search and Fetch APIs on October seventeenth, alongside an update to V four point one Flash. The two tools handle different parts of finding evidence.
The updated model is live on the website, app and API. The deepseek flash name and model pricing stay unchanged. DeepSeek reports stronger results with shorter outputs and faster task completion. Those are company evaluations, not our measurements.
Search returns structured results for a query. Fetch retrieves one page as Markdown. An agent can use the first step to locate material and the second to inspect it. Access still depends on the target site.
Each standalone endpoint costs seventy five cents per thousand successful calls. Model usage is separate. Some integrated server tools have temporary free access; DeepSeek says that billing starts October thirty first at sixteen hundred UTC.
The useful change is another way to connect agents to current pages. Check the original source and publication date, then test answer quality and total task cost. Finding a page does not make its claims true.