# Bad Influence story: ARC Prize publishes Gemini 4 Carbon benchmark results

Active · 3 articles · 1 source · First reported 11-10 15:31. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/746f4ab1-3d8d-4a4f-80ce-d441aad9bdaf

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Latest update (11-10 15:31): ARC Prize reports Gemini 4 Carbon costs twice Argon on ARC-AGI-2

Overview: ARC Prize reports verified ARC-AGI results for Google's Gemini 4 Carbon: 97.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with a provider adapter at $4.4K, and 65.1% with the standard harness at $7.2K. On ARC-AGI-2 Carbon scores 49.6% at $0.10 per task, and on ARC-AGI-1 it scores 98.5% at $0.16 per task. ARC Prize says Carbon beats its predecessor Argon by 18 percentage points on ARC-AGI-3 in the standard harness.

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

Full results are on ARC Prize's leaderboard, along with its testing policy and reproduction code in the arc-agi-benchmarking GitHub repository.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-10 15:31 · ARC Prize · [ARC Prize reports Gemini 4 Carbon costs twice Argon on ARC-AGI-2](https://badinfluence.news/items/rn0dptl8gbi6b8zvkc5z22k9v)
2. 11-10 15:31 · ARC Prize · [ARC Prize publishes Gemini 4 Carbon results on its leaderboard](https://badinfluence.news/items/xsop2q9nkcn6b027wmqd7lylf)
3. 11-10 15:31 · ARC Prize · [ARC Prize reports Gemini 4 Carbon's ARC-AGI scores](https://badinfluence.news/items/cusucxh5ri1cj5r3q154eqaib)
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