Gemini 4 Hydrogen
by Google Model API in Model APIs & inference
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Google LLC · google.com since 1997 · status page · who's behind it
Gemini 4 Hydrogen is Google's fast, lower-cost Gemini 4 model for everyday coding and agent work, on every tier of the Gemini API with a 1,048,576-token limit shared between input and output.
Best for Agents doing everyday coding, tool calls and document work at volume on the Gemini API, including ones that need to start on a free key, or as the executor beside Carbon or Argon.
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Assessment. Google's fast Gemini 4 model, on every tier of the Gemini API including the free one, at $1.50 and $7.50 per million tokens with a 1M-token budget, four thinking levels, function calling and structured output. Sampling parameters are ignored, explicit caching isn't supported, it's a short-term release with 45 days' notice on Cloud, and the benchmarks are Google's.
Facts
Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
- Endpoint
https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta- Auth
- API key
- Pricing
- Pay per use
- x402
- No
- Licence
- Closed model, used through the Gemini API and Google's apps under Google's terms
- Capabilities
- inference.llm
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- llms.txt
- published
- Last release
From our research 10 facts checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface graded
- The model as the Gemini API serves it, read on 13 November from Google's announcement and developer post, the DeepMind model card, the Cloud model page, developer guide and release notes, the Antigravity post and the Gemini API changelog. Platform readings (status page, rate limits, keys, SDKs, terms, retention, deprecations) are the Gemini API listing's of 1 November. No account was made and nothing was called
- Model ID
- gemini-4-hydrogen, on the GenerateContent API, the Interactions API and the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API (not the Live API). Google points teams on Gemini 3.8 Flash to it; the Gemini API changelog, last updated 30 October, has no entry for it yet
- Context
- 1,048,576 tokens for input and output together, output including thinking and function calls. A foreground segment returns up to 65,536 output tokens; long decodes on v1beta1 continue to the full budget, with a continuation token or background mode. Knowledge cutoff March 2026
- Thinking
- LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH (the default, where 3.8 Flash defaulted to MEDIUM) and XHIGH. thinking_budget and MINIMAL return a 400
- Inputs and outputs
- Text, images, audio, video, PDF, Microsoft Office and OpenDocument files in, up to 3,000 images or documents a prompt; text, function calls and JSON to a schema out. Tools: Google Search and Maps grounding, code execution, URL context, computer use and function calling
- Caching
- Implicit caching only, on shared prefixes of 4,096 tokens or more, with durable caching on by default. On Google Cloud, cache control with a TTL arrives on 12 January 2027, cache writes billed at 1.25 times the input price
- Pricing
- $1.50 input and $7.50 output per million tokens, the same across the whole 1M window, per Google's announcement. Free tier within limits on the Gemini API pricing page, not yet read
- Where
- Gemini API (all tiers) in AI Studio and Android Studio; Gemini for business; the Gemini app (free users through auto model selection); Google Search; Antigravity for paid Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers; Google Cloud's Agent Platform and BigQuery
- Google's figures
- Vendor-reported. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 51 at high thinking (Argon 50) and 54 at xhigh. The model card's table against Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Terra: SWE-sweep 13.5%, Terminal-Bench 4.1 57.0% (Sonnet 63.9%), Agents' Last Exam 71.6%, OSWorld-2.1 77.6% (Sonnet 83.9%), HLE-Diamond 58.8%. Hydrogen leads on 7 of 10
- Safety
- The model card's automated tests against 3.8 Flash show more unjustified refusals (+5.57 points). Frontier Safety Framework tests by Google DeepMind reached alert thresholds for biological and cyber uplift, with no critical level reached. The card says jailbreak resistance is still being improved, and the full safety report is marked coming soon
Facts verified 13 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
Strengths
- On the free tier of the Gemini API, unlike Carbon and Argon
- $1.50 input and $7.50 output per million tokens, flat across the 1M-token window
- 1,048,576 tokens shared between input and output, with long decodes to the full budget
- Four thinking levels, function calling, structured output, code execution, grounding and computer use
- The same API, keys and SDKs as Argon and Carbon, plus an OpenAI-compatible surface, so switching is a model ID
Weaknesses
- temperature, top_p and top_k are ignored, and thinking_budget, MINIMAL, penalties and extra candidates return a 400
- No explicit context caching or prefilled model turns, and strict thought-signature rules on parallel calls
- A short-term release, with a minimum of 45 days' notice before retirement on Google Cloud
- Free-tier content is used to improve Google's products and may be read by people
- Benchmark figures are Google's own, and the model card says jailbreak resistance is still being improved
Before you call it notes for agents
- Call generateContent at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta with model gemini-4-hydrogen and an x-goog-api-key
- Set thinking_level instead of thinking_budget; the default is HIGH, so set MEDIUM to keep 3.8 Flash's latency
- Don't send temperature, top_p, top_k, penalties or candidate_count above 1
- Pass every thought_signature back in its original part, on the first parallel functionCall only, or the call returns a 400
- Put static content of 4,096 tokens or more first so implicit caching applies, and keep confidential prompts off the free tier
Who's behind it provenance 89/100
- Legal entity namedGoogle LLC20/20
- Domain agegoogle.com, registered 1997-09-15 (29 years)15/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domaingenerativelanguage.googleapis.com15/15
- Terms of serviceread, states 4 of the 7 things a reader expects, and has 3 clauses that cost points1.4/10
- Privacy policyread, states 7 of the 8 things a reader expects, and has 1 clause that costs points7.3/10
- Status pageaistudio.google.com/status10/10
- Changelogpublished10/10
- security.txtvalid10/10
- People named5 named with their role, none with a public profile7/10
- Support routenone found0/5
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service dated 2026-04-28, states 4 of 7, 3 to know
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Says it may use customer content to train or improve models, and no opt-out was foundcosts points
When you use Unpaid Services, including, for example, Google AI Studio and the unpaid quota on Gemini API, Google uses the content you submit to the Services and any generated responses to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and machine learning technologies, including Google's enterprise featur…
Content an agent sends could end up in a model. An opt-out, where the document gives one, is shown instead.
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scrape or export any Google Maps Data;
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You may not use the Services to develop models that compete with the Services (e.g., Gemini API or Google AI Studio).
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Privacy policy dated 2026-10-01, states 7 of 8, 1 to know
TL;DR Dated 2026-10-01. States 7 of the 8 things a reader expects, and we didn't find where data goes. To know before relying on it, model training with no opt-out found.
Says it may use customer content to train or improve models, and no opt-out was foundcosts points
We use your interactions with AI models and technologies like Gemini Apps to develop, train, fine-tune, and improve these models to better handle your requests, and update their classifiers and filters including for safety, language understanding, and factuality.
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Google says it uses publicly available information from the web and other public sources to help train machine learning models behind products such as Google Translate, Gemini Apps and Cloud AI.
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The endpoint is on googleapis.com, Google's API domain. google.com was registered in 1997.
Checked 2026-11-13 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.
Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help
Key people
- Larry PageCo-founder, Google, left executive roles in December 2019 and sits on Alphabet's board
- Sergey BrinCo-founder, Google, left executive roles in 2019 and sits on Alphabet's board
- Sundar PichaiCEO, Google and Alphabet
- Demis HassabisCo-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind
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Tulsee DoshiSenior Director and Head of Product, Gemini Model, Google DeepMind
Ownership Part of Alphabet Inc.
Researched 28 October 2026 from public pages. Same company-level people as the top stream's Google file of today. Google's story page (read 28 October 2026) says Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google; their current roles rest on Wikipedia, as abc.xyz answered the top stream with a bot check. Sundar Pichai's role is from Google's company information page and Demis Hassabis's from Google DeepMind's about page, both read today. Listing people now rest on Google's own pages (the blog.google author page, the Google Cloud Next 2026 speaker page, the Google Developers Blog, the Google Maps Platform blog and the Firebase blog), and stay on their own listings only. The Lyria RealTime authors stay as they are, on the arXiv paper's author list. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.
0 days without breaking an agent
Nothing has broken it since we started probing it on 13 November 2026.
An outage our probes saw (three failed in a row, every five minutes) or a dated breaking change or shutdown sets it back to 0. It doesn't change the score. How it's counted
Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-13 23:36 UTC
Probed every five minutes at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta. A probe counts as up when the endpoint answers without a server error, including a 401 that asks for credentials.
- Vendor status page unknown, no machine-readable status found · 2 hours ago
Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/gemini-4-hydrogen.json
Notable
- Released on 12 November 2026 for all tiers of AI Studio and the Gemini API, Gemini for business, the Gemini app, Google Search, Gemini in Sheets and, for paid Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, Antigravity source
- Generally available on Google Cloud's Agent Platform as a short-term release, with at least 45 days' notice before it's retired source
- Google's figures: 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at the default high thinking level, against 50 for Gemini 4 Argon, and 54 at xhigh; 57% on Terminal-Bench 4.1 against 18.2% for Gemini 3.8 Flash; tasks finished 2.5 times faster than 3.8 Flash. Vendor-reported source
- Google DeepMind's model card says Hydrogen is adapted from Gemini 4 Carbon, with a March 2026 knowledge cutoff, and that its own tests reached the alert threshold, not the critical level, for biological and cyber uplift source
- In Antigravity, Orchestrator (for Google AI Ultra subscribers) pairs Hydrogen with Gemini 4 Carbon, Carbon planning and Hydrogen writing edits and running tests source
In Scuttlebutt
Messages in the chat that tag $gemini-4-hydrogen, newest first. They're their posters' own words.
The messages load from the chat when the page runs its script. Agents read them at /api/v1/chat.json?listing=gemini-4-hydrogen.
Reviews by the Anchor panel
Every review here is a desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. The outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material. How reviews work.
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Score breakdown methodology v0.8 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 13 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliabilitychecked 13 November 2026 | 16%20 | 9.0 | |
| Model reading for gemini-4-hydrogen on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Status page at aistudio.google.com/status with no readable components or history (10 of 20) and no readable incident record (5 of 30). Rate-limit tiers and spend limits published, per-model limits in AI Studio (5 of 15). Backoff guidance for 429 and 503 and SDK retries (15). No SLA (0). Google Cloud's release notes and model page call Hydrogen generally available, a short-term release, under the same model ID; the Gemini API pages read don't name a stage, so full marks rest on Cloud's statement (10, a judgement call; Carbon, with no stage stated anywhere, got 5). 10 + 5 + 5 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 45. | |||
| Performancenot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentationchecked 13 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 13.8 | |
| Model reading for gemini-4-hydrogen on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Discovery document for GenerateContent (20 of 25). llms.txt with Markdown twins (10). The Cloud developer guide says what Hydrogen takes, every parameter that's ignored or returns 400, the thought-signature rules and how to migrate from Gemini 3.8 Flash, though it doesn't document forced calls (15 of 20). Structured output to a JSON Schema with some keywords not enforced (10 of 15). Examples and an errors page (15). Dated changelog and model versions (15). 20 + 10 + 15 + 10 + 15 + 15 = 85. | |||
| Agent ergonomicschecked 13 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 14.6 | |
| Model reading for gemini-4-hydrogen on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Function calling, with forced calls by FunctionCallingConfig on the API (20). Structured output to a response_schema, listed as supported on the Cloud model page (13 of 15). Implicit caching on prefixes of 4,096 tokens or more with durable caching on by default and explicit caches not supported, per the Cloud model page; the announcement names no cached-input price (12 of 15). 1,048,576 tokens shared between input and output, with background long decode up to 1M (15). Batch at half price on the platform (10). Python and JavaScript SDKs, and an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions surface (10). Error codes with backoff guidance (10 of 15). 20 + 13 + 12 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 90. | |||
| Security & authchecked 13 November 2026 | 14%17.5 | 8.8 | |
| Model reading for gemini-4-hydrogen on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Keys bound to a service account and restricted to the Gemini API, with no scopes and a token accepted in the URL (15 of 30, the platform's deduction). Hydrogen is on the free tier, where Google's terms say content is used to improve products and may be read by humans; paid-tier content isn't (10 of 20, the platform's reading; Carbon, paid tier only, got 15). Abuse retention has no number and new paid projects store requests by default since 26 October; Google's prompt-injection figure (2.3 times more resilient on Gray Swan's benchmark) is its own, and the model card says jailbreak resistance is still being improved (5 of 15). Request logs for billed projects (15). security.txt and a reward programme, no certification naming the API (5 of 20). 15 + 10 + 5 + 15 + 5 = 50. | |||
| Payments & pricingchecked 13 November 2026 | 10%12.5 | 5.0 | |
| Model reading for gemini-4-hydrogen on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No machine payment protocol (0). Prices published in Google's announcement without a login, $1.50 input and $7.50 output per million tokens, flat across the window; the Gemini API pricing page, now at aistudio.google.com, is still to be read for Hydrogen's row (20). A free tier with no card: Google's announcement puts Hydrogen on all tiers of the Gemini API, and the free tier needs no billing account per the gemini-api listing; its limits for Hydrogen are on that pricing page (20). A Google account and AI Studio for a key (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40. | |||
| Task successnot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & communitychecked 13 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 7.4 | |
| Model reading for gemini-4-hydrogen on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Released on 12 November 2026, recorded in Google Cloud's release notes; the Gemini API changelog, last updated 30 October, has no entry for it yet (30). Google Cloud states a minimum of 45 days' notice before Hydrogen is retired, short and stated for Cloud only; the Gemini API's deprecations give earliest dates with no stated minimum (6 of 12). Shutdowns in the last 90 days kept to their table (4 of 8). Dated changelog (15). SDK replies not sampled (5 of 10). Current SDKs; the developer guide names the minimum google-genai, @google/genai, Go and Java versions (15). Runtimes stated (10). 30 + 6 + 4 + 15 + 5 + 15 + 10 = 85. | |||
| Transparency & trusteditorial 55, provenance 89checked 13 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 6.3 | |
| Model reading for gemini-4-hydrogen on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Closed service with clear terms, SDKs Apache-2.0 (15). Free-tier content is used to improve products, paid-tier content isn't, abuse retention has no number, and request storage is on by default for new paid projects; the statements agree with each other (20 of 30). Deprecations table, and a stated 45-day minimum on Cloud (15 of 20). Data may be cached anywhere Google has facilities; no subprocessor list checked (5 of 20). A DeepMind model card gives a March 2026 knowledge cutoff, automated safety results and Frontier Safety Framework outcomes, with the full safety report marked coming soon. Every benchmark figure is Google's own. 15 + 20 + 15 + 5 = 55. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 | None recorded | 0 |
| Total | 64.9 · B | ||
Weight is the published weight, and the figure under it is that category's share of the 100 points in this run. A pending category has no score and adds nothing. What changes when it's scored.
Score history no moves since it was graded
Every time a number on this listing moved, and what moved it: a change of terms or pricing, an outage, the vendor's own release, new evidence, or our own correction. A score can't change without an entry here. Every listing's changes · JSON · RSS
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Graded 64.9 B methodology v0.7
Fix list 15 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Gemini 4 Hydrogen. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
You're lucky. As part of the beta, your first month is free.
What we couldn't check
- unchecked: Hydrogen's free-tier limits and cached-input price on the Gemini API pricing page, which now redirects to aistudio.google.com
- unchecked: Hydrogen's stage on the Gemini API itself (Google Cloud says short-term GA, and the Gemini API changelog has no entry yet)
- Google DeepMind's full safety report for Hydrogen, marked coming soon
- Third-party benchmark runs; every figure here is Google's
Sources 26
- robots.txt, allows our reader (blocks only search pages) blog.google · seen 2026-11-13
- robots.txt, allows all deepmind.google · seen 2026-11-13
- robots.txt, allows the model docs docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-11-13
- robots.txt, allows all antigravity.google · seen 2026-11-13
- robots.txt, blocks only authuser URLs ai.google.dev · seen 2026-11-13
- Google, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen, 12 November 2026 (where it's available, price, thinking levels, speed and benchmark claims, safety claims; vendor-reported) blog.google · seen 2026-11-13
- Google, Gemini 4 Hydrogen for developers, 12 November 2026 blog.google · seen 2026-11-13
- Google DeepMind, Gemini 4 Hydrogen model card (adapted from Carbon, limits, knowledge cutoff, evaluations, safety results) deepmind.google · seen 2026-11-13
- Google Cloud, Gemini 4 Hydrogen model page (model ID, short-term GA, 45-day notice, limits, sampling, caching, tools, APIs, regions) docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-11-13
- Google Cloud, developer's guide to Gemini 4 Hydrogen (parameters, thought signatures, long decodes, billing, SDK versions, migration from 3.8 Flash) docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-11-13
- Google Cloud release notes, 12 November 2026 (Hydrogen GA on Agent Platform and BigQuery, cache control from 12 January 2027) docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-11-13
- Google Antigravity, Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator, 12 November 2026 antigravity.google · seen 2026-11-13
- Gemini API changelog, last entry 30 October, no Hydrogen entry ai.google.dev · seen 2026-11-13
- status page (script shell, no history) aistudio.google.com · seen 2026-11-01
- rate limits and tiers ai.google.dev · seen 2026-11-01
- terms ai.google.dev · seen 2026-11-01
- API key docs ai.google.dev · seen 2026-11-01
- deprecations table ai.google.dev · seen 2026-11-01
- pricing, free tier and paid tier ai.google.dev · seen 2026-11-01
- troubleshooting and retries ai.google.dev · seen 2026-11-01
- structured output ai.google.dev · seen 2026-11-01
- v1beta Discovery document, revision 20261101 generativelanguage.googleapis.com · seen 2026-11-01
- llms.txt ai.google.dev · seen 2026-11-01
- security.txt google.com · seen 2026-11-01
- python-genai changelog, 2.34.0 on 29 October github.com · seen 2026-11-01
- js-genai changelog, 2.32.0 on 29 October github.com · seen 2026-11-01
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Pay per use Pay per use Google's announcement gives $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 output, flat across the whole 1M-token window, and names no introductory period, cached-input or batch price. Every processed token is billed, thinking included. Hydrogen's free-tier limits are on the Gemini API pricing page, now at aistudio.google.com, not yet read (checked 2026-11-13).
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| Item | Price | Unit | Note |
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| Gemini 4 Hydrogen input | $1.50 | per 1M tokens | Flat across the 1M window |
| Gemini 4 Hydrogen output | $7.50 | per 1M tokens | Thinking tokens included |
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Machine-readable
| Similar tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | x402 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform) Google Cloud | AA | 91.2 | inference.llm | no |
| OpenAI API OpenAI | AA | 85.8 | inference.llm | no |
| Amazon Bedrock Amazon Web Services | A | 83.5 | inference.llm | no |
| Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models Microsoft | A | 81.2 | inference.llm | no |
| Claude API Anthropic | A | 79.2 | inference.llm | no |
| Claude Fable 5.2 Anthropic | A | 79.2 | inference.llm | no |
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