Today, we’re making Gemini 4 Carbon available to developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers. 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.
Two weeks ago, we released Carbon to a set of cybersecurity defenders via our Fairwind Program. Following our recent launch of Gemini 4 Argon, Carbon pushes the frontier even further. Argon remains the ideal choice for the majority of software engineering and knowledge work, while Carbon is built for tasks that test the limits of a model’s intelligence like complex, multi-step coding and debugging and open-ended scientific research and discovery — using more tokens than Argon to explore thoroughly, reason deeply, and run extended verification loops.
Across independent benchmarks designed to test model performance in real workflows, Carbon pairs frontier accuracy with practical production economics. It ranks #1 on CursorBench 4.0, Perplexity’s WANDR, and Zapier’s AutomationBench at more than 2X lower cost per task compared to the next best external model.
To put Carbon’s capabilities to work on larger and complex projects, we’re previewing /swarm in Google Antigravity, turning a single prompt into a coordinated team of agents you can track in real time. Developers can assign Carbon to roles that demand the deepest reasoning, like architectural design, coordination, and auditing, while pairing it with faster, lighter models across parallel isolated workspaces and adversarial verifiers that test every change.
Gemini 4 Carbon is available via the API in Google AI Studio and Gemini for business for all paying developers and enterprises, at the same introductory price
as Gemini 4 Argon ($2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens). It is also rolling out to all Google AI Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity, the Gemini app, and AI Mode in Search.
