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Google: Gemini 4 Carbon vs Meta: Muse Ember

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-12.

Google: Gemini 4 Carbon Meta: Muse Ember
Vendorgooglemeta
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score98.956.7
Input Price$2.00/M$0.10/M
Output Price$10.00/M$0.50/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output943,718943,718
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index99.059.4

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Muse Ember costs $0.23 and Gemini 4 Carbon costs $4.50, so Muse Ember is about 20.0 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.

On our blended benchmark score Gemini 4 Carbon leads 98.9 to 56.7.

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

Pick Gemini 4 Carbon if you need benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Muse Ember 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.

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 4 CarbonMeta: Muse Ember
SQL Generation 144 141
Code Review 150 143
Code Completion 119 133
Code Refactoring 151 145
Bug Fixing 154 147
Unit Test Generation 135 131
Code Documentation 138 137
Regex Writing 127 125
CI/CD Pipelines 131 127
Frontend Component Design 133 129
Data Analysis 138 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 136
ETL Scripting 141 136
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 118 129
OCR / Document Parsing 135 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 135 134
Long-Document Summarization 152 147
Short-Form Summarization 118 126
Blog Post Writing 132 129

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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