Gemini 4 Carbon opens to everyone in llm-gemini 0.36
Original title: llm-gemini 0.36
Launch rates are $2 per million input tokens and $10 output, doubling on December 1.
Simon Willison released llm-gemini 0.36 after Gemini 4 Carbon, previously offered to a subset of cyber defenders, became available to everyone else. He reports launch pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, scheduled to rise to $4 and $20 on December 1. The post shows pelican tests at low, medium, and high thinking effort, with medium as the default, plus a three.js trial in Google's Antigravity IDE.
Unconfirmed: Calling Gemini 4 Carbon Google's best Gemini is the author's judgment.
- General access follows about two weeks limited to some cyber defenders.
- Thinking effort defaults to medium, with low and high options.
- December 1 rates are described as matching Opus 5.5 pricing.
- Willison likens launch prices to GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5.
- Vendors
- Products
- llm-geminiAntigravity
- AI models
- Gemini 4 Carbon
From the original article
Release: llm-gemini 0. 36 Gemini 4 Carbon was announced two weeks ago for "a subset of cyber defenders", but today it's available to everyone else . This is Google's best ever Gemini, priced at $2/million input and $10/million output at launch (that's GPT-6.
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