Gemini 4 Carbon hands-on: beats DeepSeek Flash, priced at Sonnet level not Opus
oran_ge · x · 2026-11-12
Blogger orange shares early hands-on impressions of Google's new Gemini 4 Carbon model: it performs notably better than DeepSeek Flash, with more natural, smoother writing.
The pricing is the surprise — expected Opus-level cost, but it's actually priced at Sonnet's tier. Note this is an anecdotal first impression, not a systematic benchmark.
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