DeepSeek server-side Search and Fetch billing scheduled for November 1 local time
The change concerns DeepSeek API tools; the cutoff is 00:00 November 1 in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
This is a billing-date reminder for the October 17 announcement. DeepSeek schedules billing for server-side Search/Fetch calls through its API in DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code and Codex from October 31, 2026 at 16:00 UTC (November 1, 00:00 in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan). That time had not arrived at verification; we have not tested billing.
English documentation lists US$0.75 per 1,000 successful requests for each endpoint; Chinese documentation lists CNY5. These are separate published prices, not our currency conversion; confirm account settlement currency. Only successful requests producing results are charged, excluding failures, empty results and timeouts. This does not announce general search charges across ChatGPT, Claude or DeepSeek chat apps.
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/zh-cn/guides/search/
English documentation lists US$0.75 per 1,000 successful requests for each endpoint; Chinese documentation lists CNY5. These are separate published prices, not our currency conversion; confirm account settlement currency. Only successful requests producing results are charged, excluding failures, empty results and timeouts. This does not announce general search charges across ChatGPT, Claude or DeepSeek chat apps.
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/zh-cn/guides/search/
Usage conditions
- Hong Kong
- The checked announcement does not confirm Hong Kong account, payment or Search/Fetch eligibility; global marketing is not proof. These developer endpoints require API credentials and usable balance; web/app plans are not API credit. Traditional Chinese output quality and interface support were not tested.
- Macau
- The checked announcement does not confirm Macau account, payment or Search/Fetch eligibility; global marketing is not proof. These developer endpoints require API credentials and usable balance; web/app plans are not API credit. Traditional Chinese output quality and interface support were not tested.
- Taiwan
- The checked announcement does not confirm Taiwan account, payment or Search/Fetch eligibility; global marketing is not proof. These developer endpoints require API credentials and usable balance; web/app plans are not API credit. Traditional Chinese output quality and interface support were not tested.
Official source: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017: Search & Fetch billing notice