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Gemini 4 Carbon launches with promotional pricing, but task cost varies

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Google has launched its Gemini 4 Carbon model with an introductory promotional price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, which is half the cost of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. However, third-party evaluations suggest that while Carbon is cheaper per token, its cost per completed task can be higher than Claude Fable 5.2, and performance varies significantly across different benchmarks and task types. The article advises businesses to conduct their own task-specific testing at the post-promotional price point to determine the most cost-effective model for their needs, emphasizing that true cost includes task completion rates and human review time. AI

IMPACT Promotional pricing may incentivize testing, but task-specific cost and performance variations require careful evaluation by businesses.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with pricing and third-party evaluation data. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Gemini 4 Carbon launches with promotional pricing, but task cost varies

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · T.M. Gunderson ·

    Gemini 4 Carbon Is Half Price Until Nov 30: The SMB Drill Before You Switch Any Lane

    <h2> A frontier model just went on sale </h2> <p>On November 10, Google opened Gemini 4 Carbon — its newest frontier model — to paid developers and AI Ultra subscribers, nearly two weeks after announcing it to industry-leading benchmark fanfare. The part a small-business owner sh…

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