Google makes Gemini 4 Carbon available at Argon's introductory price
Koray Kavukcuoglu opens Google's strongest model beyond cyber defenders, with introductory API prices of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through November 30th.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Google Gemini (official)
Why it matters
Carbon tests whether developers will pay in tokens for longer reasoning and verification on hard coding, security and research work, with Google using Argon's introductory price to lower the cost of finding out.
Google made Gemini 4 Carbon available on November 10th to developers, enterprises, scientists and consumers, ending a two-week period in which its strongest model was limited to selected cybersecurity defenders. Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google DeepMind's senior vice president and Google's chief AI architect, announced the wider release, calling Carbon Google's strongest model for cybersecurity and long-horizon agentic work.…
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