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Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen (batch)

google/gemini-4-hydrogen:batch

Gemini 4 Hydrogen is the high-efficiency workhorse model of the Gemini 4 family from Google, built for high-throughput agentic workflows, coding and multi-model routing at lower cost and latency than Gemini 4 Carbon. It takes text, image, audio, video and file input, supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens through continuation, and controls thinking depth with low, medium, high and xhigh reasoning effort.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.75 / $3.75per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Nov 12, 2026

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input
$0/M tokens
Output
$0/M tokens
Price history
No effective price data for this selection

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Not enough uptime data to display yet.

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen (batch) (Design Arena and Vals AI)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Design ArenaGemini 4 Hydrogen Models Arena Game Development Elo1357
Vals AIGemini 4 Hydrogen EMB v1.175.8%
Vals AIGemini 4 Hydrogen Finance Agent v2.165.1%
Vals AIGemini 4 Hydrogen Vals Finance Index66.1%
Vals AIGemini 4 Hydrogen HLAB-Vals-1.111.3%
Vals AIGemini 4 Hydrogen Vals Legal Index73.6%
Vals AIGemini 4 Hydrogen Legal Research Bench53.8%
Vals AIGemini 4 Hydrogen Tax Agent Bench52.3%
Vals AIGemini 4 Hydrogen Terminal-Bench 4.054.0%
Vals AIGemini 4 Hydrogen Vals Index68.5%
Vals AIGemini 4 Hydrogen Vibe Code Bench v1.187.8%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Not enough data for apps using this model yet.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

Google: Gemini Flash versions

Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs

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