Gemini 4 Carbon reaches general availability with introductory pricing

Google made Gemini 4 Carbon generally available on November 10, 2026, with introductory pricing through November 30 and new benchmark and safety results.

Google announced on November 10, 2026, that Gemini 4 Carbon has reached general availability across its own first-party surfaces, publishing introductory pricing and benchmark results that go beyond what was previously known from the model's integration into GitHub Copilot, according to Gemini 4 Carbon is now available.

What changed

Gemini 4 Carbon (model id gemini-4-carbon) became generally available on November 10, 2026.
Introductory pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, in effect through November 30, 2026.
After November 30, 2026, pricing rises to $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens.
The model is available in Google AI Studio, Gemini for Business, Android Studio, the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, and Google Antigravity for Ultra subscribers.
Google says Gemini 4 Carbon ranks first on the CursorBench 4.0, Perplexity's WANDR, and Zapier's AutomationBench benchmarks, at more than 2x lower cost per task than the next-best external model.
On agentic honesty tasks it scores 92%, compared with 70% for Gemini 4 Argon, and it blocks 99% of attack trajectories in cybersecurity red-team testing.

What it means for people building with AI

With firm general availability pricing and benchmark numbers now public, developers choosing between Gemini models, or weighing Gemini 4 Carbon against other providers, have concrete cost and performance data to work with, rather than relying only on what the GitHub Copilot integration announcement revealed.

Availability and next steps

Google is also offering scientists free six-month access to Gemini 4 Argon and Carbon through Google Antigravity. Pricing and release details continue to be tracked in the Gemini API changelog.

Sources

Gemini 4 Carbon is now available (Google, November 10, 2026, official)
Gemini API changelog (Google AI Studio, November 10, 2026, official)

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