How it works, what it costs, and where the boundaries are

You describe the data you need and your must-have conditions. Our search agent runs a real search across open data platforms, academic and industry sources and institutional sites, judges each candidate against your conditions, and delivers an availability assessment report. Unlike searching yourself, it covers many sources at once, judges item by item, cites a traceable source for every result — and states gaps honestly instead of forcing a match.

Basic Search is free. A Complete Search Report costs RMB 10 per run / 1 credit and is charged after a readable report is generated. New accounts receive 0 credits by default; claiming and reopening reports use no credit.

A Complete Search Report is automated. It expands specialist terms, Chinese and English names, abbreviations, aliases, search paths and public sources, but does not include manual page-by-page review, actual downloads, file-content, field, sample or data-quality checks, or a final licensing opinion. Human Deep Verification is quoted separately.

Basic Search is free. Complete Search Reports are billed per run, not by whether an exact match is found. A completed readable no-match report is not refundable. No credit is charged when a system issue prevents a readable report, and an abnormal charge is refunded or compensated through the existing process.

Yes. A shared report link opens in full for free online reading and costs the viewer nothing; Word/PDF download and email delivery are limited to the report owner.

Credits purchased through in-site online payment (Alipay / WeChat Pay, currently on the Chinese site) and not yet consumed can be refunded via self-service in the workspace, returned through the original payment channel. Complimentary and promotional credits, and credits redeemed from activation codes, are non-refundable. For credits obtained through other channels, contact contact@deepsdata.com.

Typically candidate sources, an item-by-item match judgment against your conditions, a gap analysis and next-step suggestions. The search process is transparent: which queries were used, what each source returned, and which candidates were excluded and why.

No. The assessment delivers source links, the search process and the judgments — we do not download third-party raw data on your behalf. Data is obtained under each source's own license and application path, which the report spells out.

We assess availability first, verifying sources, licenses and access paths one by one. If the data truly cannot be obtained, we say so plainly and propose feasible alternatives rather than over-promising.

Real collection comes first. If certain indicators cannot be obtained directly and you accept model-based filling, we clearly separate collected from estimated parts and note the estimation method and share — estimates are never passed off as real data.

Client identity and commissioned work are confidential by default. Any samples shown publicly are anonymized with the client removed.

No. Credits have no expiry date.