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Artificial Analysis has added DeepSeek Search to its search index evaluation. The evaluation results from October 22, 2026 show that DeepSeek Search scored 69 on the index, ranking 17th among 27 search products, and is the lowest-priced paid search API on the list: charging $0.75 per 1k searches, with a cost of about $0.032 per task, making it the 5th cheapest among the 27 products. In terms of accuracy, it scores 70% on AA-Omniscience, ranking 10th, but only 63% on BrowseComp, which requires multi-hop reasoning, ranking 25th. In addition, each search returns about 7k tokens, raising the model cost to the 2nd highest on the list. There are currently no further developments.
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DeepSeek Search ranks 17th on the Artificial Analysis Search Index
DeepSeek Search scores 69 on the Artificial Analysis Search Index, ranking 17th among 27 search products, and is the lowest-priced paid search API on the list. It charges $0.75 per 1k searches, with a per-task cost of about $0.032, ranking 5th cheapest among 27 products. On AA-Omniscience its accuracy is 70%, ranking 10th, but on BrowseComp, which requires multi-hop reasoning, it is only 63%, ranking 25th; each search returns about 7k tokens, raising model cost to the 2nd highest on the list.