Gemini 4 Hydrogen
- Family
- Gemini 4
- Released
- 2026-11-12
- Context
- 1M
- Max output
- 1M
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2026-03
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 4 routes · Google AI Studio · cache read $0.075
Cheapest of 4 routes · Google AI Studio · cache read $0.075
About
Gemini 4 Hydrogen is Google DeepMind's fast, lower-cost Gemini 4 model, released generally available on November 12, 2026 in the Gemini API, Google AI Studio and Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform). Google positions it for everyday coding, agentic workflows and multimodal work, alongside Gemini 4 Carbon for the hardest problems; its model card says it is adapted from Gemini 4 Carbon. It takes text, image, video, audio and PDF input and returns text, with a unified 1,048,576-token context window and long decode up to 1,048,576 output tokens (65,536 by default).
Providers(4)
Compare all 4Compare API pricing across 4 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Batch in / out | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studio | $1.50 | $7.50 | $0.750 / $3.75 | read $0.075 | Serverless |
| GCP Vertex AI | $1.50 | $7.50 | $0.750 / $3.75 | read $0.075 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $1.50 | $7.50 | - | read $0.075 | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $1.50 | $7.50 | - | read $0.075 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(13)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router (branded "AI Router" on its site) that picks the best model per request via a Decision API or an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint, with a private selection mode that routes on anonymized patterns; sold as BYOK subscription plans priced by routed tokens.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache-2.0 open-source platform with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
gemini-4-hydrogengoogle/gemini-4-hydrogen