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.
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.
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.
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Performance Past 3 Days
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LMArena Benchmarks
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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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