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👑 Gemini 4 Carbon

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Frontier rank
#1
of 40 tracked
Frontier score
95
100 = #1 on every board
Best placing
#1
Overall
Released
Sep 30
Gemini 4 · 2026
Gemini 4 Carbon against the field

Benchmarks

Frontier scoreAverage placing, 100 = #1 everywhere
  1. #1Gemini 4 Carbon95
  2. #2Claude Opus 5.595
  3. #3GPT-6 Astra87
  4. #4Claude Fable 5.182
  5. #5Gemini 4 Argon78
  6. #6GPT-6.1 Sol76
  7. #7Claude Opus 4.674
  8. #8Claude Opus 567
OverallArena Elo
  1. #1Gemini 4 Carbon1540
  2. #2Gemini 4 Argon1529
  3. #3Claude Opus 5.51516
  4. #4Claude Fable 5.11514
  5. #5Claude Opus 51508
Hard problemsArena Elo
  1. #1Gemini 4 Carbon1553
  2. #2Gemini 4 Argon1542
  3. #3Claude Opus 5.51536
  4. #4Claude Fable 5.11529
  5. #5Claude Opus 51526
CodingArena Elo
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51810
  2. #2GPT-6 Astra1773
  3. #3Claude Sonnet 5.51770
  4. #4Gemini 4 Carbon1768
  5. #5GPT-6.1 Sol1751
AgentsAgent score
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.520.9
  2. #2Gemini 4 Carbon16
  3. #3Claude Sonnet 5.513.8
  4. #4Claude Fable 5.113.4
  5. #5GPT-6 Astra13
Arena leaderboards

Where it places

BoardPlacingScoreVotes
Overall#11540 Elo4,403
Hard problems#11553 Elo2,745
Coding#41768 Elo2,230
Agents#21626,511

From blind head-to-head votes on Arena, published Oct 28, 2026. Variants (high, max) count once at their best.

From the lab's own announcement

Release

Gemini 4
Released Sep 30, 2026
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