Gemini 4 Hydrogen scores 51 to beat Argon

Google released Gemini 4 Hydrogen on the 12th of November 2026, Google said. The fast AI model is now in the Gemini app and Google Search for all users.

It finishes tasks 2.5 times faster than Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google said. It is built for everyday coding and AI agents, programs that do tasks step by step.

A score of 51 beats the bigger Argon

Hydrogen scored 51 on the Artificial Analysis index, an outside ranking, Google said. The bigger Gemini 4 Argon scored 50.

On a test of computer terminal work, it solved 57 percent of tasks, against 18.2 percent for Flash.

Price and where to get it

Developers pay 1.50 dollars per million input tokens and 7.50 dollars per million output tokens, Google said. Tokens are bits of words.

Free Gemini app users get Hydrogen when the app picks it for a question.

What went viral on X

Google DeepMind's launch post had about 990,000 views by the 13th of November. Artificial Analysis posted that Hydrogen sits just below Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 and OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol, at a third of Sonnet's cost.

Box chief executive Aaron Levie posted that Hydrogen was 5 points more accurate than Flash on a Box work test.

Below we break down the price

A job with 1 million input tokens and 1 million output tokens costs 9 dollars, by our arithmetic. The same job on Flash at its launch price costs 4.50 dollars.

From the 1st of January 2027, Flash rises to the same 9 dollars, VentureBeat reported.

What is confirmed and what is not

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Key facts

Google released Gemini 4 Hydrogen on the 12th of November 2026.

It is in the Gemini app and Google Search for all users.

It scored 51, one point above Argon.

Input costs 1.50 dollars per million tokens.