Tencent Cloud makes Yuanbao Search service available to developers

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The report said that Tencent Cloud has opened Yuanbao Search, creating price and functionality competition in search interfaces with Alibaba Cloud, Volcano Engine, and DeepSeek.

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Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek have all begun selling search,AI Agent adding another infrastructure business.

Beating AI flash news: Tencent announced that it is making Yuanbao Search available to developers through Tencent Cloud, supporting API、MCP and Skill integration.

Tencent disclosed that this search service has a -billion-scale index and hundreds of millions of calls per day, and already supports multiple internal businesses, including WorkBuddy, ima, and Tencent Video.

The underlying technology of Yuanbao Search originates from Sogou Search. It integrates Tencent's content ecosystem and connects to 50 industries, including finance, healthcare, and law, with 13 authoritative information sources. The system uses large language models to understand query intent, filter and rerank webpages, enabling Agents to directly obtain titles, summaries, sources, and publication times.

However, this is not Tencent's first time providing search services externally. Tencent Cloud records show that “Internet Search 157” had already launched in API. Alibaba Cloud was earlier, launching its standalone Internet Search July 1, 2025 in March 20 of the same year.

This API, Volcano Engine upgraded its existing service to “Doubao Search,”June and officially released it externally. DeepSeek, meanwhile, opened Search and Fetch July for its self-developed search engine in October 17.

In terms of pricing, Yuanbao Search's Express, Standard, and Flagship editions charge API yuan, 14 yuan, and 20 yuan per calls, respectively, and additionally provide 26 free calls per month. The Express edition supports only public-web information sources; to use authoritative vertical information sources, users must select at least the Standard edition, priced at 2000 yuan.

By comparison, DeepSeek Search 20 charges API yuan per successful requests; Alibaba Cloud OpenSearch Lite costs 5 yuan, while the Pro edition was just reduced to 12 yuan in October 15.

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Key points

Beating AI flash news reported that Tencent is making Yuanbao Search available to developers through Tencent Cloud, supporting API、MCP and Skill integration.
Tencent disclosed that the service has a -billion-scale index, hundreds of millions of calls per day, and already supports internal businesses including WorkBuddy, ima, and Tencent Video 50.
The report said that Yuanbao Search's underlying technology originates from Sogou Search and connects to 13 industries, including finance, healthcare, and law, with 157 authoritative information sources.
The report said that Tencent Cloud's “Internet Search API” launched in July 1, 2025, while Alibaba Cloud launched its standalone Internet Search March 20 in API。
The report said that Volcano Engine, in June, upgraded its existing service to “Doubao Search,”July and officially released it externally; DeepSeek opened Search and Fetch October 17 in API。
Yuanbao Search's Express, Standard, and Flagship editions charge, respectively, per calls 14 yuan, 20 yuan, and 26 yuan, and provide 2000 free calls per month.
The prices per listed in the report are: DeepSeek Search API 5 yuan; Alibaba Cloud OpenSearch Lite 12 yuan; and the Pro edition 18 yuan.

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Search is being packaged as a foundational service available for AI Agent calls. Developers can access search through API、MCP or Skill, allowing Agents to obtain webpage titles, summaries, sources, and publication times. The main differences among editions are pricing and information-source coverage. For example, Yuanbao Search's Express edition supports only public webpages; using authoritative vertical information sources requires at least the Standard edition.

Why it matters to readers

The report shows that multiple vendors are providing search interfaces for AI Agent. When selecting a service, developers may compare integration methods, information-source coverage, and call pricing; for vendors, this could become a category of paid cloud AI infrastructure product, though the material provides no data on actual external adoption or revenue.

If you are developing an Agent that needs to retrieve information online, these services provide ready-made search interfaces; focus on the price per calls, free allowance, information-source coverage, and returned content.

Risks and unknowns

The material contains only media paraphrasing and an original link, without official announcements from Tencent Cloud or other vendors; the product data, launch dates, and pricing cannot be independently verified from it.
The specific years for “this year June”“July” and “October 17” are not explicitly stated in the main text.
The actual search quality, stability, coverage, and scale of developer adoption of each service remain unclear.

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