Gemini Deep Research Max Preview

Released
2026-04-21
Last refreshed
2026-06-15
Status
Researched 180d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodalRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use
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Specifications
Released
2026-04-21
Context
1M
Max output
64K
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2025-01
Specialization
general
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Training
Pretrained
Created by

Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom
Founded 2014
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$12.00
Input / 1M
$2.00

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Providers(1)

About

Maximum-comprehensiveness version of Google's Deep Research agent, built on Gemini 3.1 Pro and released April 21, 2026. Spends more compute than the standard preview to consult more sources, refine reports, and capture nuanced details. Designed for accuracy-critical long-form investigations synthesizing information from hundreds of sources. Supports MCP servers, File Search, and multi-step planning. Context: 1M tokens; max output: 65,536 tokens. Runs at Gemini 3.1 Pro rates ($2.00/$12.00 per MTok). API ID: deep-research-max-preview-04-2026.

Providers(1)

Compare API pricing across 1 tracked provider route for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Google AI Studio$2.00$12.00
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Capabilities

VisionMultimodalJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsAudio

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

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Benchmark scores(3)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
93.3DeepSearchQAObserved 2026-10-17
Configuration: Deep Research Max (preview 04-2026)
Harness: Gemini Deep Research Max agent (product agent, web search via public API)
Evaluator: Google DeepMind
Confidence: self-reported
Notes: Transcribed from eval chart https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/documents/gemini-3.1-pro_deep-research-and-max_blog_evals.png (downloaded, img/drmax-evals.png). Blog: all results use web search, evaluated by Google DeepMind via public APIs. Chart does not label the metric; DeepSearchQA's standard metric is F1. Retrieved 2026-10-17.
54.6HLE full set (text + multimodal), web searchObserved 2026-10-17
Configuration: Deep Research Max (preview 04-2026)
Harness: Gemini Deep Research Max agent (product agent, web search via public API)
Evaluator: Google DeepMind
Confidence: self-reported
Notes: Transcribed from eval chart https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/documents/gemini-3.1-pro_deep-research-and-max_blog_evals.png (downloaded, img/drmax-evals.png). Blog: all results use web search, evaluated by Google DeepMind via public APIs. Full 2,500-question set incl. multimodal. Retrieved 2026-10-17.
85.9BrowseComp, web searchObserved 2026-10-17
Configuration: Deep Research Max (preview 04-2026)
Harness: Gemini Deep Research Max agent (product agent, web search via public API)
Evaluator: Google DeepMind
Confidence: self-reported
Notes: Transcribed from eval chart https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/documents/gemini-3.1-pro_deep-research-and-max_blog_evals.png (downloaded, img/drmax-evals.png). Blog: all results use web search, evaluated by Google DeepMind via public APIs. Retrieved 2026-10-17.

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