# Stopping a Deep Research run now stops it 2026-11-03 · Product > The Stop button on a research card set the job to stopped, but the run itself kept going in the background and kept calling models. It now ends at the next step. A research run is a chain of steps: plan, searches, page reads, extractions, a draft and a review. Until today the run never asked whether you had pressed Stop. *What Stop does to a research run.* Text version You press Stop and the card shows the run as stopped. Before, the run went on in the background, still called models and could still write a report. Now it checks before every step, starts no new model call and stays stopped. It can be resumed later from the saved steps. ## What changed Before each new step the run now checks whether it was stopped. A step that is already running finishes, then the run ends. Nothing after that is called or billed. The same check now also passes through a pause for missing credit. Before, a run without credit treated each refused call as a failed step and kept going with less material. Prices and plans did not change.