Google Gemini 4 Hydrogen Is Here: $1.50 Input, $7.50 Output, and Everyday Agentic Speed
Google launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen on 12 November 2026, priced at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, and built for speed and efficiency in everyday coding and agentic work. The price is flat across the entire 1-million-token context window, there is no tiered pricing, and the model is rolling out globally from 12 November. Hydrogen is not Google's deepest reasoning model — that role belongs to its frontier siblings — but Google says it is the fast, everyday member of the Gemini 4 family. Google's announcement opens with the line: "Today, we're introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen." The positioning is deliberate. Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 4 Argon are for deep, long-horizon reasoning. Hydrogen is for the work developers and professionals do every day: writing and fixing code, running agents, researching, analysing data, and turning documents, spreadsheets, charts, audio and video into usable reports. Speed is the point, and the price is s...