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Tencent announces a brand-new upgrade of Yuanbao Search and opens it to developers. According to an October 21 report, Tencent is opening Yuanbao Search capabilities to external parties, offering three access methods: Skill, MCP, and API, with a limited-time free quota of 2,000 calls per month, and up to 6,000 calls per month via invitation codes in October and November. Yuanbao Search has built a hundred-billion-scale index, covering 13 vertical industries including finance, government affairs, and healthcare, and connecting 157 authoritative sources, with average daily calls reaching hundreds of millions, supporting more than 50 core businesses such as WorkBuddy and ima. A Zhidongxi hands-on test shows that a single API call takes an average of about 0.42 seconds. Another report the same day said Tencent Cloud announced on October 20 that Yuanbao Search is officially open to external parties, with services divided into Express, Standard, and Flagship editions, priced from 14 yuan per thousand calls, and the interface returns sorting information and data fields in JSON format.
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Tencent Yuanbao Search Opens to External Users via Skill, MCP, and API
Tencent has opened up its internally used Yuanbao Search capability to external users, offering three access methods: Skill, MCP, and API. It provides 2,000 free calls per month, and in October and November, users can enjoy up to 6,000 calls per month via invitation codes. According to Tencent, Yuanbao Search has built a hundred-billion-scale index, covering 13 vertical industries including finance, government affairs, and healthcare, and connecting to 157 authoritative sources. Its average daily call volume reaches hundreds of millions, supporting more than 50 core businesses such as WorkBuddy and ima. In Zhidongxi's testing, with 5 consecutive calls within VS Code, a single API call took 345–485 milliseconds, averaging about 0.42 seconds.
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Tencent Yuanbao Search Opens Three Access Methods: Skill, MCP, and API
Tencent has opened up its Yuanbao Search capabilities, offering three access methods: Skill, MCP, and API. There is a limited-time free quota of 2,000 calls per month, and in October and November, users can enjoy up to 6,000 calls per month via invitation codes. Yuanbao Search has built a hundred-billion-level index, covering 13 vertical industries such as finance, government affairs, and healthcare, and connecting to 157 authoritative sources. Its average daily call volume reaches hundreds of millions, supporting more than 50 core businesses such as WorkBuddy and ima. Tests by Zhidongxi show that a single API call takes an average of about 0.42 seconds, and after integrating DeepSeek Harness, it can complete tasks such as policy queries and paper organization.
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