# ARC Prize reports Gemini 4 Carbon costs twice Argon on ARC-AGI-2

> Original title: Similarly, on ARC-AGI-2 public at high reasoning, Carbon averaged 68k reasoning tokens per completed task vs 28k for Argon. With the same...

- Source: ARC Prize
- Published: 2026-11-10T20:31:54.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/rn0dptl8gbi6b8zvkc5z22k9v
- Original: https://x.com/arcprize/status/2120253135251800068

## Summary

ARC Prize says Gemini 4 Carbon averaged 68k reasoning tokens per completed ARC-AGI-2 task at high reasoning, versus 28k for Argon. With the same token pricing, Carbon's extra reasoning raised the cost to $0.75 per task, compared with $0.36 for Argon, or 2.1x.

## Post

Similarly, on ARC-AGI-2 public at high reasoning, Carbon averaged 68k reasoning tokens per completed task vs 28k for Argon. With the same token pricing and similar input and non-reasoning output, Carbon’s extra reasoning drove cost to $0.75/task vs $0.36/task (2.1x).

Full results: https://arcprize.org/results/google-gemini-4-carbon

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