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Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Gemini 4 Hydrogen

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen are both current text models, from Google. On Arena Text, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores 1487 Elo and Gemini 4 Hydrogen 1490 Elo (Arena, measured November 11, 2026). Both accept 1,048,576 tokens of context.

Higher Arena Text
Gemini 4 Hydrogen1490 Elo against 1487 Elo
Newer release
Gemini 4 HydrogenNov 2026 against Feb 2026

Data verified November 15, 2026 · Dataset 2026-11-15

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Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen, line by line

Prices in effect today, compared at the same tier wherever both list one. The better value in each row is highlighted.

FactGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 4 Hydrogen
Price
Price per 1M input tokensNot listed$1.50
Price per 1M output tokensNot listed$7.50
Independent benchmarks
Arena Text1487 Elo (#8 of 50)1490 Elo (#7 of 50) (better)
Arena WebDev1446 Elo (#36 of 45)1704 Elo (#7 of 45) (better)
GPQA Diamond94.4% (#7 of 40)Not measured
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2)59.6% (#28 of 39)Not measured
SimpleQA Verified73.5% (#6 of 36)Not measured
Specs
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Release dateFebruary 19, 2026November 12, 2026
AccessAPI onlyAPI only
Context window1,048,576 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Max output65,536 tokens65,536 tokens
Inputtext, image, audio, videotext, image, audio, video
Outputtexttext

Scores:Arena · 2026-11-15Epoch AI · 2026-11-11

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Charts

Against every current text model

Where Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen land among the current models of their task, on every independent benchmark, on price and on context.

Where each stands

On Arena Text, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview ranks #8 and Gemini 4 Hydrogen #7 of 50 current models. Each bar is the share of current models it beats: on score, price and context.

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen among the current text models, one row per benchmark, price and context window.

Independent benchmarks

Arena Text

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview:#8of 50

1,487 Elo · ahead of 84%

Gemini 4 Hydrogen:#7of 50

1,490 Elo · ahead of 88%

Arena WebDev

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview:#36of 45

1,446 Elo · ahead of 20%

Gemini 4 Hydrogen:#7of 45

1,704 Elo · ahead of 86%

GPQA Diamond

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview:#7of 40

94.4% · ahead of 85%

Gemini 4 Hydrogen: Not scored

FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2)

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview:#28of 39

59.6% · ahead of 29%

Gemini 4 Hydrogen: Not scored

SimpleQA Verified

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview:#6of 36

73.5% · ahead of 86%

Gemini 4 Hydrogen: Not scored

Price and context

Price per 1M input tokens

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Not listed

Gemini 4 Hydrogen:#32of 58

$1.50 · cheaper than 44%

Price per 1M output tokens

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Not listed

Gemini 4 Hydrogen:#36of 58

$7.50 · cheaper than 37%

Context window

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview:#12of 68

1.05M tokens · longer than 61%

Gemini 4 Hydrogen:#12of 68

1.05M tokens · longer than 61%

Scores fromArena · 2026-11-15Epoch AI · 2026-11-11

Quality against price

Arena Text · measured November 11, 2026

Gemini 4 Hydrogen scores 1,490 at $3 (blended price per 1M tokens). The line joins the current models no other beats on both price and Arena Text score; hover any point to name it.

Quality against priceArena Text score against price for 42 text models, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen marked.1,2501,3001,3501,4001,4501,5001,550$0.30$1$3$10MOST ATTRACTIVE QUADRANTMedian price $2.58Median 1,473Blended price per 1M tokens (3 input : 1 output), log scaleArena Text (Elo)Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Quality against price: the data
Arena Text score against price for 42 text models, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen marked.
ModelProviderBlended price per 1M tokensArena Text (Elo)
Gemini 4 CarbonGoogle$41,526
Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle$41,522
Muse WonderMeta$81,511
Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic$81,507
Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle$1.501,497
Muse Spark 1.3Meta$21,497
Gemini 4 HydrogenGoogle$31,490
Kimi K3Moonshot Kimi$61,487
GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI$81,485
Kimi K3.1 ProMoonshot Kimi$41,485
Qwen3.8-MaxAlibaba Qwen$31,484
Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle$31,483
GLM-5.3Z.ai$2.151,482
GPT-5.5OpenAI$111,481
GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI$41,481
MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi MiMo$0.541,480
GPT-5.4OpenAI$5.631,475
DeepSeek-V4.1-FlashDeepSeek$0.521,475
GLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai$0.241,475
GPT-6 AstraOpenAI$201,474
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle$1.131,473
Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic$41,473
Grok 4.20xAI$1.561,472
GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI$4.501,468
Grok 4.5xAI$31,466
DeepSeek-V4-ProDeepSeek$1.981,464
Grok 4.6xAI$31,457
GPT-6 SolOpenAI$41,457
Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle$0.851,455
GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI$0.451,453
Step 5 PreviewStepFun$1.431,449
MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi MiMo$0.181,448
Grok 4.7xAI$31,443
Grok 4.3xAI$1.561,442
GPT-6 LunaOpenAI$0.201,441
Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic$0.201,421
Mistral Large 4Mistral AI$1.051,420
GPT-4.1OpenAI$3.501,415
Inkling 2 SmallThinking Machines Lab$0.471,412
Solar Pro 4Upstage$0.521,387
GPT-4.1 miniOpenAI$0.701,383
GPT-4.1 nanoOpenAI$0.181,322

Cost

What each costs

Example workloads at each provider's listed rates, then every other rate either one lists. The cheaper figure in each row is highlighted.

Workload or rateGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 4 Hydrogen
Other listed rates
1M input tokens, cachedNot listed$0.075
1M input tokens, batchNot listed$0.75
1M output tokens, batchNot listed$3.75
1M input tokens, cached, prompts over 200K tokens$0.40Not listed
1M input tokens, cached, prompts up to 200K tokens$0.20Not listed
1M input tokens, priorityNot listed$2.70
1M output tokens, priorityNot listed$13.50
1M input tokens, prompts over 200K tokens$4Not listed
1M output tokens, prompts over 200K tokens$18Not listed
1M input tokens, prompts up to 200K tokens$2Not listed
1M output tokens, prompts up to 200K tokens$12Not listed

Your own bill will differ. These figures use list prices and example workloads. The AI Model Cost Audit reviews your real usage, shortlists models that score as well for each task for less, and estimates the savings.

Launch price $100, regular price $150

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Verdict

When to choose each

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Where it leads

No measured lead over Gemini 4 Hydrogen in this data.

Best for

  • Multimodal reasoning and agentic coding evaluations

Watch out for

  • This preview endpoint may change before becoming stable; production use should account for its published prompt-length price tiers
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Gemini 4 Hydrogen

Where it leads

  • Higher Arena Text score, 1490 Elo vs 1487 Elo
  • Higher Arena WebDev score, 1704 Elo vs 1446 Elo
  • A cached-input rate, $0.075 per 1M tokens
  • Batch pricing, $0.75 input and $3.75 output per 1M tokens

Best for

  • Everyday coding, tool-using agents and parallel sub-agents at a mid-tier price
  • Document, chart and video workflows over very long multimodal inputs

Watch out for

  • In Google's own table Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on Terminal-Bench 4.1 (63.9% against 57.0%), OSWorld-2.1 (83.9% against 77.6%) and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (59.9% against 51.4%)
  • A request returns at most 65,536 output tokens by default; longer outputs, up to 1,048,576 tokens, need Google long-decode mode, and only implicit context caching is supported
  • Arena places it below Claude Sonnet 5.5 on WebDev (1704 against 1772) and just below Gemini 3.8 Flash on Arena Text (1490 against 1497), on 4,741 text and 1,997 WebDev votes so far; Epoch AI has not measured it yet
Full Gemini 4 Hydrogen profile

From benchmark to production

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FAQ

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Gemini 4 Hydrogen FAQ

Do Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen discount cached input?

Gemini 4 Hydrogen lists a cached-input rate of $0.075 per 1M tokens, 95% below its standard input rate. No cached-input rate is listed for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.

Which scores higher on independent benchmarks, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Gemini 4 Hydrogen?

Gemini 4 Hydrogen leads on Arena Text, 1490 Elo to 1487 Elo; Gemini 4 Hydrogen leads on Arena WebDev, 1704 Elo to 1446 Elo. Scores are independent evaluations, not either vendor's launch figures.

Which has the larger context window, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Gemini 4 Hydrogen?

Both accept 1,048,576 tokens of context. Both return up to 65,536 tokens per response.

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