Deep Research Max price hints leak
- Google’s new Deep Research Max is not a rumored subscription tier after all. It launched on April 21 as a Gemini API agent for long research jobs. - In consumer plans, Google AI Ultra already costs $249.99 a month in the U.S. and includes the highest Deep Research limits. - The split is now product, not leak: API users buy per task, while Ultra subscribers get top app quotas and extras. (blog.google)
Google already launched Deep Research Max on April 21, and the bigger surprise is that it is an API agent, not just a leaked premium app tier. (blog.google) Google said Deep Research Max and the standard Deep Research agent both run on Gemini 3.1 Pro. The standard version is tuned for speed, while Max is built for deeper, longer research workflows. (blog.google) The company’s launch post says developers can trigger these workflows with a single application programming interface call, blend web results with private data, and generate cited reports. Google also added Model Context Protocol support and native charts and infographics. (blog.google) That means the most important pricing question splits in two. Developers are looking at API usage, while Gemini app users are looking at Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra plan limits. (blog.google) (support.google.com) For consumers, Google’s top subscription is not a mystery either. Google AI Ultra was announced in May 2025 at $249.99 a month in the United States, with the company describing it as the plan with the highest access to Deep Research and other premium tools. (blog.google) Google’s current help pages say Ultra users can create up to 120 Deep Research reports per day, compared with 20 per day on Google AI Pro and 5 reports per month on the basic free tier. The same page says Ultra users can run up to 200 agent requests per day and 3 agent tasks at the same time. (support.google.com) Google’s Deep Research help page also says reports usually take 5 to 10 minutes, and more complex reports can take longer while users leave the chat and wait for a notification. Ultra users can also get visuals such as charts, diagrams, schematics, and interactive simulators in reports. (support.google.com) Google’s Google One help page frames Ultra as the package for “professional, high-volume agentic development and orchestration,” with 25,000 AI credits per month and the company’s highest agent quotas. That lines up with the market the rumors were pointing at, even if the product shape is more concrete now. (support.google.com) So the leak-era framing has shifted. Deep Research Max is now a shipped Google product, and the clearest public price signal around top-tier access is Google AI Ultra at $249.99 a month in the U.S. (blog.google)
