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Google: Gemini 4 Carbon vs Nex AGI: Nex-N2.6

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

Google: Gemini 4 Carbon Nex AGI: Nex-N2.6
Vendorgooglenex-agi
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score98.9-
Input Price$2.00/M$0.12/M
Output Price$10.00/M$0.40/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output943,718235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index99.0-

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Nex-N2.6 costs $0.22 and Gemini 4 Carbon costs $4.50, so Nex-N2.6 is about 20.5 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 Nex-N2.6.

Only Gemini 4 Carbon offers audio input and video input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Gemini 4 Carbon scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Nex-N2.6 on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).

Pick Gemini 4 Carbon if you need long documents, audio input, video input or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Nex-N2.6 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 CarbonNex AGI: Nex-N2.6
SQL Generation 144 131
Code Review 150 126
Code Completion 119 129
Code Refactoring 151 127
Bug Fixing 154 130
Unit Test Generation 135 121
Code Documentation 138 126
Regex Writing 127 119
CI/CD Pipelines 131 117
Frontend Component Design 133 122
Data Analysis 138 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 128
ETL Scripting 141 122
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 118 129
OCR / Document Parsing 135 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 135 128
Long-Document Summarization 152 129
Short-Form Summarization 118 123
Blog Post Writing 132 119

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

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