Brave Search

DeepSeek published Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, billed only on HTTP 200 responses. Calls routed through Claude Code, Codex or DeepSeek's own harness are free until 00:00 Beijing time on November 1, 2026.

The first reply was a price check: Kagi's API runs $12 per 1,000 searches. Then a hobbyist who built his own agent tools said the big labs' bundled search costs 15-20x more than his.

SearXNG aggregates results from many search services without tracking or profiling users, is self-hostable, AGPL-licensed, and increasingly used as a search backend for local LLMs and agents — 33.2k stars, 280+ contributors.

Then the person who started it all posts: he left the metasearch concept behind over its limitations and now builds a full-text indexer instead. And the privacy premise gets its own puncture — you've swapped one watcher for hundreds.