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Gemini 4 Carbon API price per 1M tokens: input, cached and output prices, price chart and history

# Lab/Bloomberg ticker USD / 1M tokens 1D 1W 1M Trend Chart (3M)
1
StepFun
$0.2340.0%0.0%0.0%▲ Strong 6.1+80.5% a month
2
DeepSeek
$0.0274-1.1%-3.5%-6.5%▼ Strong 5.9-17.2% a month
3
AnthropicORNNTOKA
$0.636-6.6%+10.4%-3.9%▼ Strong 5.7-22.0% a month
4
Alibaba
$0.0717+19.1%+1.7%-14.2%▼ Strong 5.6-47.6% a month
5
Mistral
$0.1660.0%-9.1%+1.5%▲ Strong 4.7+130.2% a month
6
MiniMax
$0.0451-1.5%-1.3%-55.0%▼ Strong 4.5-27.4% a month
7
Google
$0.291+12.2%+19.5%+56.6%▲ Strong 4.3+26.7% a month
8
Moonshot AI
$0.570-3.3%-1.9%-26.0%▼ Moderate 3.8-9.7% a month
9
Xiaomi
$0.0295-0.3%-21.1%+6.1%▲ Moderate 3.3+20.5% a month
10
NVIDIA
$0.04040.0%0.0%-79.8%▼ Moderate 2.7-34.3% a month
11
Meta
$0.0167-0.6%+6.4%+6.4%▼ Weak 1.8-41.0% a month
12
OpenAIORNNTOKO
$0.122-10.7%-42.3%-31.0%▼ Weak 1.5-18.8% a month
13
Z.ai
$0.149-10.0%-10.5%-25.3%▼ Weak 1.4-13.3% a month
14
xAI
$0.7350.0%0.0%0.0%Weak 0.00.0% a month

Gemini 4 CarbonGoogle

$0.4270.0% (All)
USD / 1M tokens
Cache read $0.10 · Input $2.00 · Output $10.00 per 1M tokens, at 87% cache read, 12% input, 1% output
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#ModelAs ofShareUSD / 1M tokens
1Gemini 3.8 FlashNov 14, 7:57 PM CST36.2%$0.193
2Gemini 4 CarbonNov 14, 7:57 PM CST28.6%$0.427
3Gemini 4 ArgonNov 14, 7:57 PM CST17.8%$0.427
4Gemini 3 Flash PreviewNov 14, 7:57 PM CST17.4%$0.134

Break-even throughput by GPU

GPUUSD / GPU-hourTokens/s per GPU
B300$9.57665
B200$8.14565
H200$5.14357
H100$3.74259
RTX PRO 6000$2.14149
A100$1.70118
L40S$1.4198
RTX 6000 Ada$0.9465
L40$0.9264
RTX 5090$0.7049
RTX A6000$0.6042
RTX 4090$0.5337

Gross margin calculator

Revenue—
GPU rental price$3.74
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About Gemini 4 Carbon

Gemini 4 Carbon is a model from Google. Its posted API price is $2.00 per 1M input tokens, $0.10 per 1M cached input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens, or $0.427 per 1M tokens at the mix of tokens agents send (87% cache read, 12% input, 1% output). Its price has not changed since Nov 11, 2026. It carries 28.6% of Google's API tokens and is one of the 4 models in the Google token price index, $0.291 per 1M tokens today. Of the 32 models in the token index it is the 10th most expensive. At today's H100 rental price of $3.74 per GPU-hour, its break-even throughput is 259 tokens per second per GPU at its list price (3 input : 1 output). Prices are collected once a day, for each UTC day.

Models near this price

  • Kimi K3.1 Pro (Moonshot AI): $0.514 per 1M tokens at the mix, $2.00 input and $10.00 output
  • GLM 5.3 (Z.ai): $0.438 per 1M tokens at the mix, $1.40 input and $4.40 output
  • GLM 5.2 (Z.ai): $0.438 per 1M tokens at the mix, $1.40 input and $4.40 output
  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic): $0.427 per 1M tokens at the mix, $2.00 input and $10.00 output
  • GPT-6.1 Sol (OpenAI): $0.427 per 1M tokens at the mix, $2.00 input and $10.00 output
  • Gemini 4 Argon (Google): $0.427 per 1M tokens at the mix, $2.00 input and $10.00 output

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