Google: Gemini 4 Carbon

google · Released Nov 10, 2026 TOP PICK NEW
DFO score #3 / 740
86.9 leaderboard score
Speed #167 / 353
105.9 tok/s
Input Price #619 / 740
$2.00 per 1M tokens
Output Price #641 / 740
$10.00 per 1M tokens
Context #35 / 740
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Google: Gemini 4 Carbon comes from Google. Released in November 2026, it is one of the newest models we cover. We place it in the Frontier tier, where it sits at #3 of 740 models overall. For raw reasoning ability it ranks #2 of 451, putting it in among the very best models we track for overall intelligence.

Its 1M-token context window is larger than 95% of the models we list, suiting long documents, large codebases, and retrieval-heavy workloads. Crucially for business adoption, Google: Gemini 4 Carbon combines tool use, function calling, vision input, and step-by-step reasoning in a single model, letting teams consolidate several use cases instead of stitching together multiple services.

At $2.00 input and $10.00 output per 1M tokens, Google: Gemini 4 Carbon is mid-market priced. For organisations that want a no-compromise model for coding, analysis, and agentic automation, Google: Gemini 4 Carbon is among the strongest choices available today.

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DFO Verdict

Google: Gemini 4 Carbon currently sits at #3 of 740 models on our board. We class it as a frontier-tier model.

#3 of 740 overall

Benchmarks

Intelligence Index 60.0 #2 of 451 · Artificial Analysis
Coding Index Not published yet Artificial Analysis
Agentic Index Not published yet Artificial Analysis
Creative Writing Not rated Arena rating
Instruction Following Not rated Arena rating

Artificial Analysis data refreshed Nov 10, 2026. Arena ratings from the Nov 9, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control.

Artificial Analysis has not published coding or agentic results for Google: Gemini 4 Carbon yet. Until it does, the model sits below tested models on the Coding and AI Agents lists.

This model was released recently. Benchmark figures are preliminary and are likely to be updated as independent testing is finalised.

How Google: Gemini 4 Carbon compares

Google: Gemini 4 Carbon ranks #2 of 451 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 95% of the models we list. At $2.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 16% of comparable models.

Position in the field
DFO score: ahead of 100% of models #3
Speed: faster than 53% of models #167
Price: cheaper than 16% of models #619
Context: larger than 95% of models #35
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Google: Gemini 4 Carbon $2.00 in $10.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.2 $8.00 in $40.00 out
Google: Gemini 4 Argon $2.00 in $10.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $4.00 in $20.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $2.00 $0.002000
Output $10.00 $0.010000

What would Google: Gemini 4 Carbon cost your business?

Pick the job that looks most like yours, then fine-tune with the sliders. Estimates update live.

A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$15.84/mo Google: Gemini 4 Carbon $0.0053 per request
$63.36/mo Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.2 $0.02 per request
$15.84/mo Google: Gemini 4 Argon · best value $0.0053 per request

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DFO AI AUTOMATION

These numbers get smaller with the right architecture.

We route routine calls to cheap models and save Google: Gemini 4 Carbon for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.

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About Google: Gemini 4 Carbon

Gemini 4 Carbon is a frontier Gemini 4 model from Google for coding, agentic and complex reasoning work. It takes text, image, audio, video and file input, supports long decode..

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Frequently asked questions about Google: Gemini 4 Carbon

How much does Google: Gemini 4 Carbon cost?

Google: Gemini 4 Carbon costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Google: Gemini 4 Carbon?

Google: Gemini 4 Carbon has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).

What can Google: Gemini 4 Carbon do?

Google: Gemini 4 Carbon supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created Google: Gemini 4 Carbon?

Google: Gemini 4 Carbon is developed by Google and was released on November 10, 2026.

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