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Gemini 4 Carbon

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Not out yet. Google hasn't released Gemini 4 Carbon; the latest signal, on October 28, 2026: Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, first on Artificial Analysis at 59, but cyber defenders get it first. What we know so far: announced Oct 28, not public yet; Google calls it its strongest model, state-of-the-art on cybersecurity and long-horizon tasks (Google blog); access starts this week for a subset of cyber defenders, then more trusted partners through the Fairwind Program; developers, businesses and consumers get it 'as soon as possible', no date; no gemini-4-carbon id in the Gemini API changelog, OpenRouter or models.dev (read Oct 28, 18:05 UTC); price at launch: $2 / $10 per 1M introductory, the same as Argon, cached input 95% off; $4 / $20 after the introductory period; Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 (read Oct 28): 59.4 at high, first, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 (58.4) and GPT-6 Astra (56.9); AA marks it as having no publicly available API; Google's own figures: SEC-bench Pro 88.2%, ExploitGym 54.8%, CWE-bench 71.0%, #4 on WebDev Arena at 1769 (+89 over Argon); Argon took the same path: announced Sep 30 for Fairwind testers, GA Oct 13; before the announcement: Business Insider (Oct 9) reported Carbon as an internal Gemini 4 checkpoint, and @LuminaBench showed gemini-4-carbon references in Antigravity build 1.4.3 (Oct 24). Swept every 60 seconds across provider catalogs. The moment it answers on a public API, alerts fire: a text or a call on paid plans the second it's confirmed, then a free Chrome push and email about 15 minutes later.

An email when Gemini 4 Carbon answers on a public API, about 15 minutes after members, plus every frontier launch · no card

Timeline

2026-10-28

Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, first on Artificial Analysis at 59, but cyber defenders get it firstpost

Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, and calls it its strongest model. It is not public yet.

Current model in this line

Gemini 4, live since October 13, 2026 · $2 / $10 per 1M tokens on Google's API · AW Index 80.

The official word

We alert on verified API behavior, never on announcements alone — but when Google speaks, it's here: blog.google ↗

Gemini 4 Carbon: quick answers

Is Gemini 4 Carbon out yet?

Not yet. ArtificialWatch has not seen Gemini 4 Carbon answer on any public API it sweeps. The moment it does, subscribers get an alert.

Which model is current until Gemini 4 Carbon ships?

The current model in this line is Gemini 4 from Google, live since October 13, 2026.

Who makes Gemini 4 Carbon?

Google. ArtificialWatch also tracks Gemini 4, Nano Banana 2.1, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini Omni Flash from Google.