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Gemini 4 Carbon

AI model Released

Context window
1,048,576 tokens
Maximum output
65,536 tokens
Open weights
No

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

Gemini 4 Carbon 1538.3 Gemini 4 Carbon (High) · 95% interval 1528.7–1547.8 · 4,282 votes · 2026-11-09

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,614.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,584.68 – 1,643.48

428 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,563.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,544.82 – 1,582.00

1072 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,532.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,512.13 – 1,552.16

1005 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,530.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,515.01 – 1,546.65

1501 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,564.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,551.49 – 1,576.97

3310 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,582.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,553.19 – 1,612.60

400 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,550.47 rating

Confidence interval: 1,538.45 – 1,562.49

2675 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,545.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,525.36 – 1,564.66

982 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,519.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,497.22 – 1,541.66

713 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,526.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,508.22 – 1,544.79

1170 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,538.35 rating

Confidence interval: 1,501.77 – 1,574.92

279 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,534.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,510.77 – 1,558.76

632 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,538.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,498.40 – 1,577.88

237 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,518.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,481.59 – 1,555.83

269 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,552.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,537.29 – 1,567.83

1585 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,542.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,524.50 – 1,560.18

1263 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,539.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,523.23 – 1,555.99

1419 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,548.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,533.56 – 1,562.89

1860 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,568.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,543.11 – 1,593.57

610 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,533.57 rating

Confidence interval: 1,521.84 – 1,545.30

2781 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,538.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,528.74 – 1,547.82

4282 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-11-09 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,560.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,536.29 – 1,584.54

635 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemini 4 Carbon

1,536.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,495.17 – 1,577.16

207 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

Gemini 4 Carbon

Closed weights. No supported local deployment or GPU requirement is published.

API cost

USD / month

Standard text-token estimate. Excludes taxes, caching, batch discounts, reasoning and multimodal surcharges. Provider limits and regional availability may differ.

Gemini 4 Carbon

Capabilities

Context window
1,048,576 tokens
Maximum output
65,536 tokens
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
No
Knowledge cutoff
2026-03
Model license
Proprietary

Input modalities

  • text
  • image
  • video
  • audio
  • pdf

Output modalities

  • text