AI & Cloud Infrastructure
November 13, 2026Gemini 4 Hydrogen at $1.50/$7.50: the Foundry workhorse math
Gemini 4 Hydrogen launched on 12 November 2026 at $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens, double today's Gemini 3.8 Flash price but identical to the rate Flash was already scheduled to reach on 1 January 2027, and it arrived on Google's EU multi-region endpoint on day one. That places it between GPT-6.1 Terra and Claude Sonnet 5.5 in Microsoft Foundry, where Claude still has no EU Data Zone, so we price a monthly pipeline and a cached agent session on all five workhorses and map the Azure route.
Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Google DeepMind
Microsoft Foundry
GPT-6.1 Terra
Claude Sonnet 5.5
LLM Cost
Model Selection
Data Residency
Azure API Management
Azure
By Falak Mahmood