Google Opens Gemini 4 Carbon to Paying Developers

It costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens at launch, rising to $4 and $20 later. Carbon offers longer reasoning than Argon and performs better on coding and automation benchmarks. Its advanced security features remain restricted to vetted defenders, with the public version blocking 99% of attack attempts in internal tests.

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