# Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with cyber benchmarks and restricted access > Source: > Published: 2026-10-28 17:39:40+00:00 # Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with cyber benchmarks and restricted access **Google is initially limiting access to selected Fairwind cyber defenders and lists an introductory API price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.** By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket) · Published Primary source: [x.com](https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/2115489593818816591) ## Why it matters Carbon's restricted rollout leaves its production performance inaccessible to most developers, despite Google's published API prices. Artificial Analysis' broad index ranking offers an external comparison, but it does not evaluate cybersecurity performance. Google has launched Gemini 4 Carbon, a model it says improves on coding and cybersecurity tasks, with initial access limited to selected defenders in its Fairwind program. [Google AI announced Carbon on X](https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/2115489593818816591); [Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu](https://blog.google/authors/koray-kavukcuoglu/) authored the accompanying October 28th blog post.… When you purchase through links in our articles, [we may earn a small commission](https://runtimewire.com/affiliate-monetization-standards). This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.