GoogleReasoning modelDeep Research 04 2026
Deep Research 04 2026 is a Google proprietary reasoning model, released 21 Apr 2026. It is not yet ranked: no independent benchmark results so far, only pricing and metadata. At $4.50 per million tokens blended it is among the most expensive ranked models.
- Blended price
- $4.50/M
- $2.00 in · $12.00 out
- Output speed
- –
- First answer
- –
- Context
- 131k
- Released
- 21 Apr 2026
No independent quality benchmark results yet — only pricing and metadata.
What a task costs
Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.200 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Cost | With caching | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reply | 400 / 300 | $0.0044 | $0.0039 | – |
| Summarise a 30-page report | 12,000 / 600 | $0.031 | $0.015 | – |
| Code edit | 6,000 / 1,500 | $0.030 | $0.022 | – |
| Agentic coding session | 60,000 / 4,000 | $0.168 | $0.087 | – |
| Structured extraction | 2,000 / 200 | $0.0064 | $0.0037 | – |
See also
Data as of 13 Sept 2026. Compare with another model.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “Deep Research 04 2026: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, https://www.benchleader.com/models/deep-research-04-2026, data as of 13 Sept 2026.