October 17, 2026 · DeepSeek
DeepSeek Search engine powers web and API search
DeepSeek's web and API search capabilities are powered by our in-house DeepSeek search engine, which reliably handles hundreds of millions of search requests from around the world every day. DeepSeek Search is an AI-native general-purpose search engine that indexes hundreds of billions of web pages, supports multilingual search, and returns highly relevant, authoritative, and timely results in real time. It filters SEO spam, GEO manipulation, and low-quality AIGC through strict detection mechanisms, ensuring authoritative and trustworthy information for users and LLMs. For usage details, see the Search & Fetch guide.
Latest DeepSeek API changes
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash released with native multimodal support and lower API prices
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp experimental vision model available on the API
DeepSeek-V4-Pro generally available, with Responses API and peak/off-peak pricing
DeepSeek-V4-Flash API in public beta, with native Responses API support