# Gemini 4 Carbon (High) ranks first on Text Arena with 1528 points

> Original title: GOOGLE 🔥: Gemini 4 Carbon (High) landed in the 1st spot on Text Arena with 1528 pts.

- Source: Testing Catalog
- Published: 2026-10-28T17:58:47.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/t3w8du7ndeipj662jy0ia16ye
- Original: https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2115503561085718955

## Summary

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon (High) ranked first on Text Arena with 1528 points, ahead of Gemini 4 Argon (High) at 1520. It ranked second on Agent Arena with a +16.2% net improvement at $1.80 median cost per task, and fourth on Code Arena: WebDev with 1768 points. The post is a relay of an Arena announcement that includes the leaderboard figures and a Pareto frontier chart.

## Post

GOOGLE 🔥: Gemini 4 Carbon (High) landed in the 1st spot on Text Arena with 1528 pts. 

> It ranked #2 in Agent Arena, behind Opus 5.5, and #4 in Web Dev Arena, behind Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, and Sonnet 5.5. 

> Gemini 4 Carbon is in a new Pareto Frontier on Agent Arena as well!

The Artificial Analysis V5 score is 59 👀

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## Quoted post @arena

> Exciting news: Gemini 4 Carbon (High) from @GoogleDeepMind  just made a huge debut on Arena, landing #1 in Text Arena, #2 in Agent Arena, and #4 in Code Arena: WebDev. Back at the top, Gemini 4 Carbon delivers frontier intelligence and reshapes the Pareto frontier across three arenas.
> 
> In Agent Arena, Gemini 4 Carbon ranks #2 with a +16.2% net improvement across +21.9K real-world agentic sessions from our global community, surpassing top models GPT-6 Astra and Fable-5.1. At $1.80 median cost per task, Gemini 4 Carbon (High) costs 72% less than the #1 ranked Claude Opus 5.5 (Max).
> 
> Its standouts by key signals:
> - #1 Steerability (+18.6%): can the model course-correct when you push back?
> - #2 Praise vs Complaint (+37.9%): implicit sentiment in users' reactions
> - #3 Confirmed Success (+18.7%): explicit “yes, that worked” from users
> 
> In Code Arena: WebDev, Carbon scored 1768 pts landing #4:
> - Just 2 pts below #3 Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh), at 1770 pts
> - 89 pts above #11 Gemini 4 Argon (High), at 1679 pts
> 
> By category, it ranks #3 in Gaming and Simulations, and #5 in Brand & Marketing.
> 
> In Text Arena, Gemini 4 Carbon (High) is the new #1 with 1528 pts, now ahead of Gemini 4 Argon (High) at #2 with 1520 pts.
> 
> Congrats to the @GoogleDeepMind team on this huge milestone!

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