DeepSeek has made its web-search interface available to everyone: Search finds webpages, and Fetch retrieves their main content. A successful request costs about ¥0.005, so 1,000 requests cost just ¥5. Searches that return no results, fail, or time out are free.
If you use Claude Code, Codex, or DeepSeek Harness and have the model search on its own, it’s free until midnight (Beijing time) on November 1.
If you’re building agents or writing automation, you can use the next two weeks to get the “model searches the web itself” workflow up and running—no need to build your own search system or pay to try it out. The window is short, so get started now if you want to save yourself the hassle.
If you use Claude Code, Codex, or DeepSeek Harness and have the model search on its own, it’s free until midnight (Beijing time) on November 1.
If you’re building agents or writing automation, you can use the next two weeks to get the “model searches the web itself” workflow up and running—no need to build your own search system or pay to try it out. The window is short, so get started now if you want to save yourself the hassle.