Systems and methods are described for determining a quantity of records generated by a processing task of a query executed in a data intake and query. The system receives a query and identifies a processing task of the query and a quantity of records to be processed according to the query. The system determines the number of records generated by the processing task based on the number of records to be processed and a record generation estimate. The system can allocate compute resources or determine a query execution time for at least a portion of the query based on the determined quantity of records generated.