Total Cost per Task combines search cost and model inference cost.
DeepSeek Search costs about $0.032 per task: about $0.0085 for search at $0.75 per 1k searches and about $0.023 for the model. Search makes up only 27% of the cost. DeepSeek's larger results make the model, not the search, the main cost.
On Artificial Analysis Search Index vs. Cost per Task, DeepSeek Search sits below the cost frontier: Octen (77) at about $0.024 scores higher for less.