Gemini 4 Carbon costs $7.76 per task, 23% less than Claude Opus 5.5 at same intelligence
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-29
Artificial Analysis broke down Gemini 4 Carbon costs: $7.76 per Intelligence Index task, 23% less than Claude Opus 5.5 (max, $10.04) but 1.2x GPT-6 Astra (max, $6.25). It uses 123k output tokens per task, 29% fewer than Opus 5.5's 173k. At the same $4/$20 pricing as Argon, cost per task is in line ($7.68) while scoring 9 points higher on the Intelligence Index.
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