Using Gemini Deep Research Preview on Google AI Studio

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at Google AI Studio and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the Google AI Studio SDK or REST API to call deep-research-preview-04-2026 — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $2.00/1M input, $12.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

import os
from google import genai

client = genai.Client(api_key=os.environ["GOOGLE_API_KEY"])
response = client.models.generate_content(
    model="deep-research-preview-04-2026",
    contents="Hello"
)
print(response.text)

About Google AI Studio

Google AI Studio is a model prototyping environment and API access point for Gemini models, offering an inference playground for developers to test and build AI applications.

Pricing on Google AI Studio

Capabilities

About Gemini Deep Research Preview

Google's agentic deep research model built on Gemini 3.1 Pro, released April 21, 2026. Designed for speed and efficiency in autonomous multi-step research: ingests text, images, PDFs, audio, and video to produce comprehensive cited reports from public web sources and private workspace data. Supports collaborative planning, visualization, MCP servers, and File Search. Context window: 1M tokens; max output: 65,536 tokens. Runs at Gemini 3.1 Pro rates ($2.00/$12.00 per MTok). API ID: deep-research-preview-04-2026.