Gemini 4 Hydrogen

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Google introduces Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a fast, cost-efficient model built for reliable agentic workflows and everyday tasks. Get the details.

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Today, we’re introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen, bringing cutting-edge intelligence to everyone — with speed and efficiency for everyday coding and agentic workflows.

Hydrogen surpasses Argon on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at its default high thinking level (51 vs. 50, and reaching 54 at its highest xhigh thinking setting), while often completing tasks faster than models in its class. Gemini 4 Hydrogen is priced flat across its entire 1 million-token context window at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens.

In real-world software development, while teams rely on frontier models like Carbon and Argon for deep architectural judgment when designing systems or untangling subtle bugs, they still need a fast, disciplined execution model for writing code, running tests, and verifying changes. Hydrogen is built to stand on its own as a model for everyday work — or to pair with Carbon and Argon as the high-efficiency execution engine in multi-model workflows.

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