Google makes Gemini 4 Carbon available to paying users
The model is intended for complex programming, research and agent tasks, and will become more expensive after November.
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Google made Gemini 4 Carbon available on Tuesday, saying it is intended for developers, businesses, scientists and consumers. According to Google, the model is available through the API and several Google services at an introductory rate that will rise from 1 December.
According to Google, Carbon is designed for tasks requiring extensive reasoning and long execution chains, such as complex software development, debugging and scientific research. Google says the model uses more tokens for this than Gemini 4 Argon, which Google describes as more suitable for most knowledge work.
Paying developers and businesses can use Carbon through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio and Gemini for business. The company says the model is also being rolled out to Google AI Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity, the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search.
The introductory price is 2 dollars per million input tokens and 10 dollars per million output tokens. Google reports that the price for the publicly available Carbon model will rise after 30 November 2026 to 4 and 20 dollars respectively.
Google presents several benchmark results in which Carbon scores highly. Among other things, the company says that the model came first in several independent benchmarks. These results were selected by Google and do not provide a complete, independent comparison of all models or real-world use cases.
Google is also announcing a preview of /swarm in Antigravity. According to Google, this allows multiple agents to work together on a single task. For Dutch software companies and business-services providers using AI agents, price, reliability, data protection and oversight may influence the decision to use the model.
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The product description and prices were checked directly with Google. The text distinguishes Google's own benchmark claims from independently established performance.
- confirmed Google made Gemini 4 Carbon available on 10 November. — Google published the availability announcement on 10 November 2026. source
- confirmed The introductory price is 2 dollars per million input tokens and 10 dollars per million output tokens. — The price is stated in Google's announcement. source
- confirmed The price will rise to 4 and 20 dollars after 30 November. — Google lists this future price in the footnote to the announcement. source
- confirmed Google says that Carbon scores highly in multiple benchmarks. — The announcement mentions CursorBench, WANDR and AutomationBench; the claim is correctly attributed to Google. source
Editor's note
Availability, prices and features are taken from Google's own announcement. Performance claims are presented as company claims; independent verification of all benchmarks is lacking.Sources
- Gemini 4 Carbon is now available — Google
- Gemini 4 Carbon: New model for developer agents — Google for Developers
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