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gemini-4-carbon· Verified November 11, 2026Gemini 4 Carbon pricing and benchmarks
Google’s most capable reasoning model, for sustained agentic coding, multimodal knowledge work and scientific reasoning.
Input
$2.00
per 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.10
per 1M tokens
Output
$10.00
per 1M tokens
How capable is Gemini 4 Carbon?
Epoch AI has not published capability scores for Gemini 4 Carbon yet. See benchmarks for rated models.
What Gemini 4 Carbon costs in practice
| Workload | Monthly cost |
|---|---|
Support chatbot 100,000 replies a month, ~1,500 input tokens (system prompt + history) and ~400 output tokens each. | $700.00 |
Document Q&A (RAG) 50,000 questions a month with ~8,000 tokens of retrieved context and ~600 output tokens each. | $1,100 |
Coding agent 10,000 agent steps a month, ~40,000 input tokens each (70% read from the prompt cache) and ~2,000 output tokens. | $468.00 |
Cached chatbot The same 100,000-reply support chatbot, but 60% of each prompt (system prompt + conversation history) is served from the prompt cache. | $529.00 |
Meeting notes 10,000 meetings a month summarized from ~12,000-token transcripts, ~1,000 output tokens each. | $340.00 |
Bulk translation 200,000 short translations a month, ~800 input and ~800 output tokens each. | $1,920 |
Content moderation 1,000,000 classifications a month, ~400 input tokens and ~80 output tokens each. | $1,600 |
Article drafting 300 long-form articles a month written from a ~4,000-token brief and outline, ~5,000 output tokens each. | $17.40 |
Code review bot 30,000 pull-request reviews a month, ~5,000 input tokens each (30% cached repository context) and ~700 output tokens. | $424.50 |
Invoice extraction 100,000 documents a month parsed into structured JSON, ~1,200 input and ~250 output tokens each. | $490.00 |
Pricing details
- Introductory price through November 30, 2026. From December 1, 2026: $4 input, $0.20 cached, $20 output per 1M tokens.
- Not available on the Gemini API free tier.
- Output price includes thinking tokens.
- Max output is 65,536 tokens by default and up to 1,048,576 with long decode.
- Implicit caching only; explicit context caching is not supported.
- Priority inference costs 1.8x the standard rate.
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- Gemini 4 CarbonGoogle$1,100/mo$0.02 / req
Standard-tier list prices. Long-context rates apply automatically where the provider publishes a threshold. Excludes cache-write surcharges, taxes, batch and volume discounts.
Gemini 4 Carbon pricing FAQs
- When was Gemini 4 Carbon released?
- Google released Gemini 4 Carbon on November 10, 2026. Its API ID is gemini-4-carbon, at $2.00 input / $10.00 output per 1M tokens.
- How much does Gemini 4 Carbon cost per 1M tokens?
- Gemini 4 Carbon costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens, and $0.10 per 1M cached input tokens on Google’s standard tier.. Cached input tokens cost $0.10 per 1M.
- What is Gemini 4 Carbon’s context window?
- You can prompt Gemini 4 Carbon with up to 1.05M tokens. It can generate up to 66K tokens per response.
- Does Gemini 4 Carbon have a batch API discount?
- Yes. Asynchronous batch jobs cost 50% less: $1.00 input / $5.00 per 1M tokens.
- How does Gemini 4 Carbon’s price compare with other AI models?
- Sorted by blended price (3 input : 1 output), Gemini 4 Carbon is #20 of the 29 models we track, at $4.00 per 1M tokens blended.