DeepSeek launches Search API, ranks 17th on Artificial Analysis search index
10/22/2026 — 10/22, 14:21·1 sources (all)·2 reports (all)
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- DeepSeek launched a Search API on October 17. Artificial Analysis, using its open-source Stirrup harness, scored it 69 on its search index,…
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DeepSeek launched its Search API on 17 October. On 22 October, Artificial Analysis published its evaluation of the product: tested in the firm's open-source Stirrup harness, DeepSeek Search scored 69 on the Artificial Analysis Search Index, placing 17th among 27 search products, and was the lowest-priced paid Search API on the board.
The same release broke the results down by task type. DeepSeek Search was strongest on factual questions and weakest on multi-hop browsing. It scored 70% on AA-Omniscience, 3 points behind the leaders, 75 F1 on DeepSearchQA and 63% on BrowseComp.
So far the public record stops at this third-party assessment: the API is live, and the ranking and sub-scores come from Artificial Analysis. The material contains no response from DeepSeek and no word of a later version or pricing change.
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Latest turnArtificial Analysis finds DeepSeek Search strongest on factual questions and weakest on multi-hop browsing. It scores 70% on AA-Omniscience, 3 points behind the leaders, along with 75 F1 on DeepSearchQA and 63% on BrowseComp.
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Artificial Analysis finds DeepSeek Search strongest on factual questions and weakest on multi-hop browsing. It scores 70% on AA-Omniscience, 3 points behind the leaders, along with 75 F1 on DeepSearchQA and 63% on BrowseComp.
X：Artificial Analysis (@artificialanlys)First-partyAI score 42DeepSeek launched its Search API on 17 October. Artificial Analysis benchmarked it in its open-source Stirrup harness and gives it a score of 69 on the Search Index, ranking 17th of 27 search products while carrying the lowest price of any paid Search API on the board.
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