Gemini 4 Hydrogen debuts #5 on Agent Arena: 3x faster and 4.7x cheaper than rivals
arena · x · 2026-11-13
Agent Arena's debut run of Gemini 4 Hydrogen (High) lands #5 with a +14.8% net improvement across 6.5k real-world agentic sessions.
- Fastest in the top 10: 5.3 min/task median, 3x faster than #1 Claude Fable 5.2 and 2.4x faster than GPT-6 Astra
- Cheapest: $1.6/task median, 3.7x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra and 4.7x cheaper than Fable 5.1; API at $1.5/$7.5 per 1M tokens
- Spends more output tokens: 41% more than Carbon, 2.8x more than Argon
- #2 Steerability at +21%, behind only Fable 5.2
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