Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen, an extremely capable and fast model built to bring Gemini 4 to everyone!
Available to all tiers of Google AI Studio, Gemini API, Gemini for business, the Gemini app, Google Search, and paid Google AI Pro + Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity.
Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen, an extremely capable and fast model built to bring Gemini 4 to everyone!
Available to all tiers of Google AI Studio, Gemini API, Gemini for business, the Gemini app, Google Search, and paid Google AI Pro + Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity.
It is genuinely impressive how Google manages to build a frontier model like Gemini 4 Carbon and then immediately trip over its own shoelaces when offering it to paying customers. Look at the standard $20 subscription landscape right now: pay $20 for ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro, and you get proper, usable access to top-tier models like 6.1 Sol, and Opus 5.5, heck even a taste of Astra or Fable. Pay $20 for Google AI Pro, and you’re treated like you’ve asked for a personal favour from Sundar himself.
The economics make the stinginess even harder to defend. On paper, Gemini 4 Carbon is a heavy hitter in the exact same weight class as 6.1 Sol and Opus 5.5, yet its API pricing sits right alongside 6.1 Sol and at literally half the cost of Opus 5.5. Despite being twice as cheap to run as Anthropic’s flagship, the usage limits we get in Antigravity are microscopic compared to the other two $20 subscriptions. You barely get your agentic workflow warmed up before Google pulls the plug and nudges you toward a $100+ Ultra tier.
The real comedy, though? A $20 subscription to Cursor gives you Day 1 access to Gemini 4 Carbon, while Google’s own $20 AI Pro subscribers are left peering through the window. When a third-party IDE treats your flagship model as a standard Day 1 perk while your own first-party subscription rations it like vintage champagne, the product strategy has officially lost the plot. Google, you finally built a model that goes toe-to-toe with the best, stop gatekeeping it behind eye-watering limits and make the $20 AI Pro plan actually competitive.
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The result:
Over $4,500 saved.
Less electronic waste.
Exact same daily quality of life.
Smart people buy tech to use it, not to flex a new camera layout every year.