Pricingby GlyphGemini 4 Carbon is a frontier Gemini 4 model from Google for coding, agentic and complex reasoning work.
Ways to buy 7
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
flex, cheapest · cached $0.05 | $1 | $5 | $1 / $5-50% vs list | $0.05 | -50% vs list |
The lab's own API · cached $0.1 | $2 | $10 | $2 / $10List price | $0.1 | List price |
global · cached $0.1 | $2 | $10 | $2 / $10Same as list | $0.1 | Same as list |
eu · cached $0.11 | $2.2 | $11 | $2.2 / $11+10% vs list | $0.11 | +10% vs list |
us · cached $0.11 | $2.2 | $11 | $2.2 / $11+10% vs list | $0.11 | +10% vs list |
global-priority · cached $0.18 | $3.6 | $18 | $3.6 / $18+80% vs list | $0.18 | +80% vs list |
priority · cached $0.18 | $3.6 | $18 | $3.6 / $18+80% vs list | $0.18 | +80% vs list |
USD per 1M tokens; batch $1 in, $5 out on the lab's API. Regions are separate routes.
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $400.00 direct.
Kong AI Gateway$400.00+0%
LiteLLM$400.00+0%
Vercel AI Gateway$400.00+0%
Requesty$420.00+5%
Eden AI$422.00+5.5%
OpenRouter$422.00+5.5%
Cloudflare AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
HeliconeNot offeredNot offered
Martian GatewayNot offeredNot offered
Neon AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
A dash: not on that gateway's own model list. No published token fee: Portkey, TrueFoundry AI Gateway.
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About Gemini 4 Carbon
Takes audio, files, image, text, video in and returns text. First listed Nov 11, 2026. Up to 944K output tokens. Blended price $4 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Overall score 32 on leadersboard.fru.dev (rank 6). Model id gemini-4-carbon.
Price history
List price since Nov 11, 2026, from daily reads of the OpenRouter catalog.
Questions
How much does Gemini 4 Carbon cost?
$2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.1, or $1 and $5 through the Batch API.
What is the context window of Gemini 4 Carbon?
1M tokens, with up to 944K tokens of output.
Where is Gemini 4 Carbon cheapest?
Of 7 routes tracked, Google Gemini API is cheapest at $1 input and $5 output per million tokens.