DeepSeek launched a public Search API endpoint that allows developers to request up to 50 ranked web search results per query from its internal search engine

From the articleDeepSeek Just Released V4.1-Flash-1017, Scores 77.0 on DeepSWE, Opens Search APIAlso in Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs