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Gemini 4 Carbon

Google

Released seen 12 days earlyUpdated
Context window
1M
1,048,576 tokens
Max output
33K
32,768 tokens
Input / Output
audio, image, pdf, text, video → text

API pricing

USD / 1M tokens

InputOutputCached input
  • $2.00
  • $10.00
  • $0.10
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Timeline

  1. · Limited access · evidence link · evidence link · evidence link
  2. · API availability · evidence link · evidence link · evidence link · evidence link
  3. · Released · evidence link · evidence link · evidence link
Input / output price · USD / 1M tokens
ModelEvidence linksInput / output price
gemini-4-carbon
batch
gemini
API route unavailable
$1.00 / $5.00
gemini-4-carbon
flex
gemini
API route unavailable
$1.00 / $5.00
gemini-4-carbon
priority
gemini
API route unavailable
$3.60 / $18.00
gemini-4-carbon
standard
gemini
API route unavailable
$2.00 / $10.00
  1. · Alex's posts · Alex Getman
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    Gemini 4 Carbon is out!
  2. · Alex's posts · Alex Getman
    Excerpt
    Gemini 4 Carbon has appeared in the Google Cloud billing catalog. Looks like it might be launching today.
  3. · Alex's posts · Alex Getman
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    Fable scores 65 on the Intelligence Index, beating Claude Opus by 6 points. Gemini 4 Carbon has already lost its lead before even becoming publicly available. And GPT will have to try really hard to get anywhere close to that score.
  4. · Alex's posts · Alex Getman
    Excerpt
    🚨 Gemini 4 Carbon is out. According to synthetic benchmarks, it’s now the best AI model in the world. The Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index seems to confirm that. But will it actually be usable in practice? I seriously doubt it. Remember when Gemini 4 Argon came out and everyone called it the ultimate AI killer? In reality, it turned out to be such a hallucinating piece of shit that even a grandma with dementia could probably reason better. So I’d take all these impressive numbers with a massive grain of salt. Divide the hype by at least two. I’m pretty sure Carbon won’t even come close to Tera or Sonnet in real-world use. I genuinely have no idea who this is even for.

Evidence links

  • · Catalogue listing · Gemini API · models/gemini-4-carbon

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Specifications

Gemini 4 Carbon is a model from Google, released on 10 Nov 2026. The context window is 1,048,576 tokens. The maximum output is 32,768 tokens. Pricing is $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens.

Context window
1,048,576
Max output
32,768
Input
audio · image · pdf · text · video
Output
text
Input · USD / 1M tokens
$2.00
Output · USD / 1M tokens
$10.00
Cached input · USD / 1M tokens
$0.10

Questions

What is the context window of Gemini 4 Carbon?

The context window is 1,048,576 tokens. The maximum output is 32,768 tokens.

How much does Gemini 4 Carbon cost?

Pricing is $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.10 per million.

When was Gemini 4 Carbon released?

On 10 Nov 2026. Signal Forge first recorded it on 28 Oct 2026, 12 days before release.