Gemini 4 Hydrogen

Google's fast model in the Gemini 4 generation, adapted from Gemini 4 Carbon for everyday coding and agent workflows, on its own or as sub-agents beside the frontier models.

Context: 1M tokens
Max output: 1M
Cutoff: Mar 2026
Released: Nov 2026

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Hosted API price

List price via Google Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $1.50 /1M
Output: $7.50 /1M
Hosted by: 1 provider

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Gemini 4 Hydrogen, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Gemini 4 Hydrogen, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cached input /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Google Cloud Creator	$1.50	$7.50	$0.075	$30.00	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Gemini 4 Hydrogen by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Gemini 4 Hydrogen per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Qwen3.7-Max Alibaba Cloud	$1.6667	$1.25	$3.75	1M		−33%
Muse Spark 1.1 Meta	$1.75	$1.25	$4.25	1M		−30%
Muse Spark 1.2 Meta	$1.75	$1.25	$4.25	1M		−30%
Muse Spark 1.3 Meta	$1.75	$1.25	$4.25	1M		−30%
Muse Spark Open Meta	$1.75	$1.25	$4.25	1M		−30%
Gemini 4 Hydrogen This model Google Cloud	$2.50	$1.50	$7.50	1M	Mar 2026
Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral	$2.50	$1.50	$7.50	256K		0%
Qwen3.8-Max Alibaba Cloud	$2.5333	$1.90	$5.70	1M		+1%
Grok 4.5 xAI	$2.6667	$2.00	$6.00	500K	Feb 2026	+7%
Grok 4.6 xAI	$2.6667	$2.00	$6.00	500K	Jan 2026	+7%
Grok 4.7 xAI	$2.6667	$2.00	$6.00	500K	May 2026	+7%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What Gemini 4 Hydrogen accepts and can do, as published by Google Cloud.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
Video Accepts video as input.
Audio Accepts audio as input.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.
Code execution Write and execute code in a sandboxed environment.
File upload Process uploaded documents, spreadsheets, and other files.

Common questions

What is Gemini 4 Hydrogen good for?

Everyday coding and agent workflows where speed matters, on its own or as sub-agents that a frontier model orchestrates. Google built it for rapid execution, with four thinking levels up to xhigh.

When is Gemini 4 Hydrogen not a good fit?

The hardest long-horizon reasoning, where Google points to Gemini 4 Carbon and Argon instead. Closed weights, so no self-hosting, output is text only, explicit caching is not supported, and the Live API does not serve it.

What is the cheapest way to run Gemini 4 Hydrogen?

The cheapest hosted rate is $1.50 / $7.50 per 1M tokens via Google Cloud.

How does Gemini 4 Hydrogen compare with Gemini 3.8 Flash?

Same 1M-token context and text, image, audio and video input. Gemini 4 Hydrogen lists at 100% more per 1M input tokens and 100% more per 1M output tokens than Gemini 3.8 Flash. It came out 2 months later and has a larger max output (1M against 66K tokens).

Can I self-host Gemini 4 Hydrogen?

No. Google Cloud does not publish the weights; Gemini 4 Hydrogen is available only through hosted APIs.