Gemini 4 Carbon is now available
First seen Nov 10 Updated Nov 11, 23:33 UTC Heat 29 low evidence
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon on Nov 10, 2026, available to developers, enterprises, scientists and consumers. Google says it is its strongest model, aimed at cybersecurity, long-horizon agentic work and complex coding. Carbon uses more tokens than Gemini 4 Argon to reason deeply and verify.
- What to do
- Test Carbon on multi-step coding and debugging tasks against Argon and compare token use and cost.
- Who should care
- Developers building agents, coding tools or security workflows on Gemini.
Why it matters: Carbon is available to developers now, and Google says it costs more than 2X less per task than the next best external model on three benchmarks.
Key facts
- Announced Nov 10, 2026
- Google says it ranks #1 on CursorBench 4.0, Perplexity's WANDR and Zapier's AutomationBench
- Google says cost per task is more than 2X lower than the next best external model
Model
Gemini 4 Carbon Google
- Input
- $2.00
- Output
- $10
- Context
- 1.04858M
- Released
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Prices in USD per 1M tokens.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 169.8 ECI | #2 |
| GPQA Diamond | 96.5% | #1 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 90.5% | #6 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 94.2% | #2 |
| LMArena Text | 1526 rating | #1 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1768.2 rating | #4 |
Context
Carbon follows the recent launch of Gemini 4 Argon.
Timeline
Discussion
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Gemini 4 Carbon is now availableblog.google · HN · 291 pts · 164 comments
Evidence
Low evidence: a single community post. Treat it as a claim until someone else confirms it.
Details written Nov 11, 05:25 UTC from the sources listed above.