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thombles21 hours ago | parent | context | favorite | on: DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 success... For comparison that’s $5 with Brave Search API and $12 with Kagi API help 
wmchen20 hours ago | next[–] Ceramic.ai is $0.25/1000 searches. I've been using it as an MCP in OpenCode and it seems adequate. I don't see many people talk about it, and I have not benchmarked it against Exa/Tavilly. reply breadislove14 hours ago | parent | next[–] ceramic is very very bad, the worst search provider of all. it feels like it is doing only lexical matching and the index is very outdated reply vlmutolo13 hours ago | root | parent | next[–] They explicitly are only doing lexical matching. I actually don’t mind this if it lowers the cost; LLMs can turn lexical search into a very powerful tool by iterating on the queries. Just look at the success of coding agents using grep and similar code search tools. But it does seem like their index isn’t great. reply loehnsberg19 hours ago | prev | next[–] Kagi MCP works really well imo also within DeepSeek Harness. Just looking at cost neglects the possible difference in quality. How good is that DeepSeek web search/fetch? reply ece21 hours ago | prev | next[–] $4 with Exa, $1.50 with SERP API reply ttul13 hours ago | parent | next[–] SerpAPI is comically good at evading Google's scraping protections. If what you want to know is, precisely, what someone searching Google in Pakistan would see, this is the API for you. reply hackernud3s5 hours ago | root | parent | next[–] That just means they have proxies in Pakistan, that's not as impressive as you're making it sound. reply hackernud3s5 hours ago | parent | prev | next[–] $1 with Serper, and it gets lower with volume. I thought I remembered Serp Api being higher than that. They do have a decent free tier reply stncls19 hours ago | prev | next[–] Mojeek is £ 2 per thousand. They have their own index (not a SERP), but subjectively pretty close to Google (I prefer it to Bing/DDG). reply hobofan19 hours ago | prev | next[–] $1 for LinkUp fetch, $5 for LinkUp search. reply satirr19 hours ago | prev[–] is the cost of search and scrape provider is impact the quality too? for the search is yes, because there it shows the quality and depth of the search. but for scrape, wht the cons? reply
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