Cost per task
- Low
- $1
- Likely
- $3
- High
- $8
- Basis
- no vendor publishes it; NotebookLM caps Deep Research at 200/day on Ultra 20x, Perplexity Max at about 500/month (unverified)
- Uncertainty
- ±4x
- Unit
- API-$ equivalent
Share of a Claude plan's weekly capacity
One “deep research report” as a share of each Claude plan's weekly capacity, computed by calc.js (task cost ÷ weekly capacity).
| Plan | Weekly capacity | Low | Likely | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Pro | $66 inferred | 1.52% | 4.55% | 12.12% |
| Claude Max 5x | $550 inferred | 0.18% | 0.55% | 1.45% |
| Claude Max 20x | $1,099 measured | 0.09% | 0.27% | 0.73% |
Ranges were drafted at an Opus-class list price of about $5 per M input and $25 per M output tokens (Sonnet about 0.6x, Haiku about 0.2x). Re-checked 20 Oct 2026: Claude Opus 5.5 lists at $4 / $20 per M (claude.com/pricing), about 20% lower, so the high ends are conservative for Opus 5.5. On GitHub Copilot plans the calculator rescales every row to the chosen model's per-token rate published by GitHub (see methodology).