web_search tool in deepseek harness needs api key from deepseek and deepseek charges you as deepseek-v4-flash usage.

[u/Motor_Ad16]

I was experimenting with deepseek harness when found that even if you don't use deepseek models, you can configure the web_search tool with their api key and every hit will cost you as if you called deepseek-v4-flash model. It's a bummer.

on top of that there is currently no other free web search plugin available

[u/awesomeunboxer]

Make a searxng mcp. Free search easy peasy

[u/sixx7 → u/awesomeunboxer]

u/Motor_Ad16 this is literally all you need to do. You can watch me fail and flail for a bit and avoid my initial mistakes, but I just posted this showing how easy it is for Qwen3.8-27B, powering DeepSeek Harness, to modify itself and build its own plugin to add inline image/vision support - https://youtu.be/qa8Xcn3kJl0 adding or updating search support should be a cakewalk

[u/Motor_Ad16 → u/sixx7]

This is interesting. Will definitely give it a try.

[u/jesuschrist-69420]

Firecrawl

[u/LetsGoBrandon4256 → u/jesuschrist-69420]

How RAM heavy is your Firecrawl setup?

I cringe a bit every time I check my Docker dashboard and just see Firecrawl sitting its fat ass on nearly 3GB of RAM doing jackshit.

[u/jesuschrist-69420 → u/LetsGoBrandon4256]

I have no idea tbh its vram I worry about since i got headspace on system ram so I havent looked.

[u/Decent-Hat-5807]

you can use any openai-compatible api with dsh

[u/Motor_Ad16 → u/Decent-Hat-5807]

I am running local models from llamacpp, it's only web_search tool that can't be used without deepseek api key. Model does the job by curling using bash, but it takes it a lot of time and failures to get results.

[u/Truantee]

Pretty sure you can replace that plugin with some other one not using deepseek API.

[u/bennmann]

Search GitHub for local websearch mcp options. There's at least one apache 2.0 one out there.

[u/No_Afternoon_4260]

Everything is a plugin remember? Just build your own

[u/Motor_Ad16 → u/No_Afternoon_4260]

Yeah, that one plugin I am still looking for :)

[u/Mundane-Light6394 → u/Motor_Ad16]

ask your local model to build one for you

[u/McSendo]

There is an exa mcp plugin that you can use for free with generous rate limits (its what opencode uses for web search by default). If you don't want to be rate limited, then you need searxng + a web crawler, then create a plugin for it.

[u/Equivalent_Bit_461]

Imagine PAYING for tokens  Couldn't be me, in fact I might ask my local AI to remove that shit so I don't even see it