OpenAI is bringing its Deep Research tool to free users with a ‘lightweight’ version

OpenAI is now rolling out a new, lighter version of its agentic deep research tool to free users, while also upgrading the limit for Plus, Team, Enterprise and Edu customers. The ChatGPT maker said its new lightweight deep research tool is powered by the newly released o4-mini reasoning model and is designed to be “cost-effective while preserving high quality”.

OpenAI Pro users will get 250 deep research queries per day, while Team, Plus, Enterprise and Edu users will get 25 queries, and Free users will have access to 5 queries.