Gemini 4 Carbon launches: pricing and benchmark rundown
Gemini 4 Carbon is priced at $2/$10/$0.10 per million tokens, 5x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra and 2x cheaper than Opus 5.5, with a top Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index of 59 and other benchmark claims.
Gemini 4 Carbon is finally here 🔥 Carbon is 5x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra and 2x cheaper than Claude Opus 5.5 on input/output tokens, with 95% off cached input pricing! 💰 API pricing per 1M tokens (input/output/cached): → Gemini 4 Carbon: $2 / $10 / $0.10 → GPT-6 Astra: $10 / $50 / $1 → Claude Opus 5.5: $4 / $20 / $0.20 And the benchmarks are equally INSANE: → #1 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (59) → 10x+ better code patching vs unnamed rival (Google claim) → 2x+ better secure code generation vs Argon → ~2x fewer unsupported claims vs Argon → 1.59x higher cyber exploitation score vs Opus 5.5 → 1.44x better long-context score vs Opus → 1.34x better long-context score vs Astra → 1.30x better automation score vs Astra → 1.29x higher cyber exploitation score vs Astra → 1.27x better automation score vs Opus → 1.15x better science & math score vs Opus → ~80% fewer severe misalignment alerts → 0% prompt-injection success vs 8.5% on Astra → 88.2% vulnerability detection (SEC-bench Pro) → 71% vulnerability patching (CWE-bench) → 26% less overreach, 29% less under-service → +89 Elo on WebDev Arena (#4) And this is just TWO weeks after Argon. Google is moving ridiculously fast 🚀
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