Google: Gemini 4 Carbon vs Elorian: Glimpse

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Glimpse costs $1.35 and Gemini 4 Carbon costs $4.50, so Glimpse is about 3.3 times cheaper for the same work.

Gemini 4 Carbon reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Glimpse.

Only Gemini 4 Carbon offers audio input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Gemini 4 Carbon scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Glimpse on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).

Gemini 4 Carbon was released in November 2026 and Glimpse in October 2026.

Pick Gemini 4 Carbon if you need long documents, audio input or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Glimpse if you need lower cost.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.