AINov 10, 2026, 6:32 PM UTC·1 min read

Google Releases Gemini 4 Carbon to All Users and Developers

Google has opened Gemini 4 Carbon to developers, businesses, scientists and general users, after limiting it to cybersecurity experts through the Fairwind Program.

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Google has launched Gemini 4 Carbon, the most powerful model in its Gemini family, making it available to developers, businesses, scientists and general users. Until now, access was restricted to the Fairwind Program and limited to cybersecurity experts.

According to Google, Carbon is an evolution of Argon and considerably more capable. The company says Gemini 4 Argon remains the right choice for the vast majority of tasks, particularly software engineering and knowledge work. Carbon is aimed at tasks that, in Google's words, "push the limits of a model's intelligence", especially complex programming and debugging.

Benchmarks and pricing

On benchmarks, Gemini 4 Carbon ranks first on CursorBench 4.0, Perplexity's WANDR and Zapier's AutomationBench. Google says it does so at a much lower cost per task than the runner-up, pointing to a balance of power and efficiency.

Pricing at launch matches Gemini 4 Argon: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. That rate is promotional. Once the introductory period ends, it will rise to $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. Carbon will also be available to all Google AI Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity, the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search.

Security capabilities

Google highlights Carbon's cybersecurity abilities as the best it has offered so far, particularly for securing critical software. The model leads the main benchmarks for vulnerability discovery (SEC-bench Pro), exploitation (ExploitGym) and remediation (CWE-bench v1).

According to the company, it can inspect software, trace how flaws can be chained across different systems and generate verified patches that fix the root cause.

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