Reported News
Gemini 4 Carbon is now available: API at $2/$10 until Nov 30, plus /swarm in Antigravity
On Nov 10, 2026 Google DeepMind made Gemini 4 Carbon, which it calls "our strongest model", available via the Gemini API to all paying developers and enterprises at an introductory $2 per 1M input and $10 per 1M output tokens. Google says that price ends Nov 30, 2026, after which $4 and $20 apply.
- Changes reported
- 6
- listed below, each from a source we read
- We tested
- Not tested yet
- reported from sources; we did not run it ourselves
- Gaps we flag
- 4
- things we could not verify
- Sources
- 2
- 1 primary, linked below
What changed
| # | What the source says | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Access widened: two weeks after a Fairwind Program release to cyber defenders, Google says Carbon is now available via the API in Google AI Studio and Gemini for business for all paying developers and enterprises. | Reported |
| 02 | Price: the introductory rate matches Gemini 4 Argon at $2 per 1M input and $10 per 1M output tokens; Google says $4 and $20 apply after the introductory period expires on November 30, 2026. | Reported |
| 03 | Consumers: Google says Carbon is rolling out to all Google AI Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity, the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. | Reported |
| 04 | New tool: Google is previewing /swarm in Google Antigravity, which turns one prompt into a coordinated team of agents, with Carbon assigned to design, coordination and auditing roles alongside lighter models. | Reported |
| 05 | Google's own claims: #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, and 92% on a 375-task agentic honesty benchmark versus 70% for Argon. | Reported |
| 06 | Positioning: Google says Argon remains the ideal choice for most software engineering and knowledge work, while Carbon uses more tokens for complex multi-step coding, debugging and open-ended research. | Reported |
reported by the sourcemeasured or run by usnot verified
Primary source: Google DeepMind: Gemini 4 Carbon is now available. We are the fast, independent index; the vendor’s own page is the source of record for this release.
In the source’s words
“Carbon is our strongest model with frontier performance in cybersecurity capabilities and long-horizon agentic workflows across complex knowledge work, software engineering, and scientific reasoning.”
“After the introductory period expires on November 30, 2026, the price of $4 per 1M input tokens and $20 per 1M output tokens will apply.”
“Argon remains the ideal choice for the majority of software engineering and knowledge work”
What we have not verified
- We did not run Gemini 4 Carbon or the /swarm preview ourselves.
- All benchmark rankings, cost-per-task comparisons, safety rates and partner results are Google's own claims; we did not reproduce them.
- The post gives no API model ID, context window or output limit, and does not say whether the Carbon for cyber variant has the same price.
- Rollout to AI Ultra subscribers is described as ongoing, so availability on a given account may lag.
This brief is Reported: written from the sources below, not from running the release ourselves.
Sources
- Google DeepMind: Gemini 4 Carbon is now availableprimary source · fetched 2026-11-10
- Google DeepMind: Oct 28 Gemini 4 Carbon announcementsource · fetched 2026-10-28
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