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Gemini 4 Carbon vs GPT 6 Astra

Compare Gemini 4 Carbon from Google and GPT 6 Astra from OpenAI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Gemini 4 Carbon
Google · text, image, video, audio, pdf → text

Gemini 4 Carbon is Google DeepMind’s multimodal model for complex coding, long-running agent workflows, and cybersecurity defense. Building on Gemini 4 Argon, it improves software engineering, vulnerability detection and remediation, multimodal understanding, and execution across challenging, multi-step tasks.

Input$2 /M
Output$10 /M
Cache read$0.1 /M
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GPT 6 Astra
OpenAI · text, image → text

GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's newest and most intelligent model, with industry-leading performance in computer operations, web browsing, software engineering, scientific research, and professional work. It excels at executing multi-step workflows across code, browsers, and various professional software. Astra can achieve better results with significantly fewer output tokens, making its estimated API cost per task lower.

Input$10 /M
Output$50 /M
Cache read$1 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Gemini 4 Carbon
GPT 6 Astra
Input /M
$2
$10
Output /M
$10
$50
Cache read /M
$0.1
$1
Context length
1,048,576
1,050,000
Max output
65,536
128,000
Time to First Token
16.5 s
9.6 s
Throughput
1418.6 tok/s
29.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideoaudiopdf
textimage
Supported Parameters
toolsthinkingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · responses
Released
November 11, 2026
September 5, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
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1420148015401600
Overall
14741526
Coding
15481567
Math
14821482
Hard prompts
15001546
Instruction following
14731525
Multi-turn
14831564
Creative writing
14501515
Longer query
14861537
Chinese
15211585
English
14871524
WebDev Arena
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1640172018001880
Overall
17641768
React
17761792
HTML
17701786
Gaming
18471857
Simulations
18621865
Data analytics
16661684

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Gemini 4 Carbon
$270 /mo
GPT 6 Astra
$1,350 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Gemini 4 Carbon, GPT 6 Astra?

Gemini 4 Carbon: $10/M output tokens; GPT 6 Astra: $50/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Gemini 4 Carbon: 1567; GPT 6 Astra: 1548 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

GPT 6 Astra: 9.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Gemini 4 Carbon accepts 1,048,576 and GPT 6 Astra accepts 1,050,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on Gemini 4 Carbon and 128,000 tokens on GPT 6 Astra.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Gemini 4 Carbon at 1418.6 tok/s and GPT 6 Astra at 29.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Gemini 4 Carbon accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input; GPT 6 Astra accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, thinking and structured outputs.

Can I call Gemini 4 Carbon and GPT 6 Astra with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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