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Gemini 4 Carbon is now available
Gemini 4 Carbon 现已可用
Platform teams evaluating Gemini 4 Carbon must now decide whether to consolidate on Google's stack, weighing migration cost and vendor lock-in against the model's broad developer, enterprise, and consumer reach.
Judgment
Enterprise platform leads choosing Gemini 4 Carbon must decide whether to standardize on Google’s stack at $2 per million input and $10 per million output tokens, accepting migration cost and vendor lock-in for frontier agentic workflows and consumer reach.
Basis
Google’s SVP, Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, said Carbon is now available to developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers, calling it the strongest model for cybersecurity capabilities and long-horizon agentic workflows. The source says Carbon is priced at the same introductory rate as Gemini 4 Argon: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Google claims Carbon ranks #1 on CursorBench 4.0, Perplexity’s WANDR, and Zapier’s AutomationBench at more than 2X lower cost per task versus the next best external model. On the new Multimodal Knowledge Agent benchmark with Artificial Analysis, Carbon ranks #2 while costing more than 6X lower in average cost per task than the top performer. Google also previews /swarm in Antigravity, which coordinates multiple agents, and says Carbon is available via API in AI Studio and Gemini for business, plus Google AI Ultra.
- Input price$2 per million tokens
- Output price$10 per million tokens
- Cost per task vs next bestmore than 2X lower
- MKA cost vs top modelmore than 6X lower
Unclear The source does not disclose migration tooling, lock-in exit terms, or whether the introductory $2/$10 pricing persists after the launch period.
Next Check Google’s pricing page after the introductory period to see whether Carbon’s $2/$10 per-million-token rate and Argon parity persist.