Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs Gemini 4 Carbon: Release Comparison

Name: Intelligence
Creator: Artificial Analysis
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Comparison of the Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Gemini 4 Carbon releases: 4 and 3 models respectively, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across all 7 models.

For intelligence, Gemini 4 Carbon scores highest: Gemini 4 Carbon (High) at 60, against Gemini 4 Hydrogen (Xhigh) at 54 for Gemini 4 Hydrogen.
For time per task, Gemini 4 Hydrogen is fastest: Gemini 4 Hydrogen (Low) at 1.3 min, against Gemini 4 Carbon (Medium) at 23.8 min for Gemini 4 Carbon.
For cost per task, Gemini 4 Hydrogen is cheapest: Gemini 4 Hydrogen (Low) at $0.29, against Gemini 4 Carbon (Medium) at $4.68 for Gemini 4 Carbon.

Model Playground

Releases compared


	Gemini 4 Carbon (high)	Gemini 4 Carbon (medium)	Gemini 4 Carbon (low)	Gemini 4 Hydrogen (xhigh)	Gemini 4 Hydrogen (high)	Gemini 4 Hydrogen (medium)	Gemini 4 Hydrogen (low)
Intelligence Index	60	58	54	54	51	41	27
Finance & Accounting	63	60	56	58	56	51	41
Strategy & Ops	61	58	53	58	55	52	42
Legal	62	59	54	57	55	51	42
Healthcare & Medical	57	--	--	--	--	--	--
Engineering	65	64	60	60	57	49	36
Economics	60	58	55	55	53	48	38
AA-Briefcase v1.1	1611	1602	1567	1567	1497	1296	947
AutomationBench-AA	77.8%	77.6%	63.5%	76.1%	74.4%	72.0%	60.5%
Terminal-Bench 4.0	65.2%	60.6%	62.6%	53.5%	54.0%	29.3%	6.6%
FrontierCode-AA 2.0	40.6%	39.5%	29.6%	39.0%	36.3%	31.5%	9.3%
AA-Omniscience v1.1	54	47	39	46	44	42	36
GDP.pdf	28.4%	29.6%	28.6%	27.6%	30.0%	32.8%	28.2%
HLE-Diamond	69.1%	67.4%	61.9%	58.8%	54.9%	47.7%	32.2%
CritPt v2 (Hard Subset)	69.0%	69.0%	65.0%	66.0%	61.5%	61.0%	48.0%
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1	64.8%	62.4%	61.9%	49.5%	41.4%	15.2%	2.4%

Cost per TaskUSD	$5.48	$4.68	$5.22	$3.16	$1.87	$0.80	$0.29
Input PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$2.00	$2.00	$2.00	$1.50	$1.50	$1.50	$1.50
Output PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00	$7.50	$7.50	$7.50	$7.50
Cache Hit PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10	$0.075	$0.075	$0.075	$0.075
Cache Write PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00	--	--	--	--

Time per TaskMinutes	27.4	23.8	23.9	13.5	8.3	3.7	1.3
Output Speedtok/s	75	72	60	190	170	177	181
Time to First Answer Tokens	67.62	23.41	12.21	37.77	18.89	11.80	5.71
Time to First Tokens	67.62	23.41	12.21	37.77	18.89	11.80	5.71
End-to-End TimeMean of Single-Request Workloads (s)	161.27	74.63	46.87	96.34	68.50	27.44	19.34

Context Window	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M
Creator	Google	Google	Google	Google	Google	Google	Google
License	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary
Input Modality	Supports: text, image, speech, and video	Supports: text, image, speech, and video	Supports: text, image, speech, and video	Supports: text, image, speech, and video	Supports: text, image, speech, and video	Supports: text, image, speech, and video	Supports: text, image, speech, and video
Output Modality	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text
Providers

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Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Time per Task

Inference time (minutes) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode-AA 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode-AA 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Gemini 4 Hydrogen

Gemini 4 Carbon

Pareto line

AA-Briefcase v1.1

AutomationBench-AA

Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

Speed & Latency

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Output tokens divided by end-to-end output speed (minutes per Intelligence Index task) · Speed at the model's own endpoint or the median across providers · Lower is better

The weighted average time (minutes) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task: output tokens per task divided by output speed, weighted by each benchmark's weight in the Intelligence Index.

Speed and latency metrics average each endpoint's runs over the past 5 days, and the error rate pools them. We run the benchmark every 6 hours, and endpoints of deprecated models every 18 hours.

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, AutomationBench-AA, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AutomationBench-AA, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, AutomationBench-AA, HLE-Diamond · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode-AA 2.0, AA-Briefcase v1.1 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs Gemini 4 Carbon: Release Comparison

Intelligence

Time per Task

Cost per Task

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Speed & Latency

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Time Period

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes