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DeepSeek’s aggressive search pricing forces a pivot in your RAG spend
◆ 85RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack14h ago
The cost of web-scale retrieval is a major bottleneck for agentic workflows and real-time RAG systems. DeepSeek’s entrance at $0.75 per 1,000 requests challenges the premium margins of current search API leaders and lowers the floor for production-grade search.
Takeaways
- DeepSeek Search and Fetch APIs cost $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests.
- The pricing significantly undercuts established competitors in the agentic search market.
- Founders can now build search-intensive agents with much lower operational overhead.
Read the original at thenewstack.io
DeepSeek made its name with cheap AI models. Now it’s undercutting search API rivals, too.
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