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title: "Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon at Argon prices for select cyber defenders"
description: "From the The Forward Pass daily issue, October 29, 2026."
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updated: 2026-10-29
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# Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon at Argon prices for select cyber defenders

From The Forward Pass daily issue, October 29, 2026 (https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-29). Source: https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-29/google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-at-argon-prices-for-select-cyber-defenders

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**Top News** · 859 HN points

Gemini 4 Carbon is Google’s next frontier model, arriving two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon at the same introductory token prices. Google reports more than twice Argon’s success rate at generating secure code in internal tests.

Here's what changed:
- Input costs $2 per million tokens and output costs $10, with cached input discounted by 95%.
- Artificial Analysis ranks Carbon first on its updated Intelligence Index, with a score of 59.
- Google’s internal teams report that Carbon can work for days on complex, multi-step tasks.

One catch: access is rolling out first to a subset of cyber defenders. More trusted partners will follow through the Fairwind Program, while availability in Google products is planned for later. This is not yet a public developer release.

Sources: [blog.google](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/)