Google Rolls Out Gemini 4 Carbon at $2 per Million Tokens, Previewing Agent Swarm
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Updated · The Verge · Nov 10
Google Rolls Out Gemini 4 Carbon at $2 per Million Tokens, Previewing Agent Swarm
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Nov 10
Summary
Gemini 4 Carbon opened to paying developers, enterprises and AI Ultra subscribers after a limited release to cybersecurity defenders two weeks ago.
Google positions Carbon above last month’s Argon for complex multi-step coding and open-ended scientific research, while previewing an Antigravity “swarm” tool that turns one prompt into a coordinated team of agents.
Carbon launches at an introductory $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through November, about one-fifth the cost of OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and one-quarter Anthropic’s Fable 5.2.
Google says benchmark results make Carbon one of the market’s most powerful models, though it still trails Fable 5.2 on cited metrics and lower-tier or free-user access remains unclear.
The release, coming a month after Argon, strengthens Google’s bid to reassert itself at the AI frontier against Anthropic and OpenAI.