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Gemini 4 Carbon vs Step 3.5 Flash

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Gemini 4 Carbon · Step 3.5 Flash are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Gemini 4 Carbon
#1 by perf·#8 by attention
DESERVED
Step 3.5 Flash
#6 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
26.9x better value than Gemini 4 Carbon
Gemini 4 Carbon
14.3 pts/$
$6.00/M
Step 3.5 Flash
384.5 pts/$
$0.20/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$3.61T·Tier 1
Low risk
stepfun logo
StepFun
$5.0B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 4 Carbon$2.00$10.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$40.00
stepfun logoStep 3.5 Flash$0.10$0.30262K tokens (~131 books)$1.50