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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Gemini 4 Carbon

Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 3.1 Pro score 89.4% vs 76.8% averaged across five Vision Evals tasks (#1 and #16 of 68 models), so Gemini 4 Carbon leads overall.

  • Gemini 4 Carbon wins 4 of the 5 tasks, with its widest lead on reasoning (91.4% vs 72.2%).
  • Gemini 4 Carbon is about half the cost: $0.0061 vs $0.010 overall average cost per sample.

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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Gemini 4 Carbon on Vision Evals

Score by taskGemini 3.1 ProGemini 4 Carbon
Reasoning
72.2
91.4
Counting
71.6
90.1
Object Detection
67.4
84.5
OCR
72.6
87.2
Identification
100.0
93.8

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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Gemini 4 Carbon Comparison Table

Evals updated November 10, 2026Pricing updated November 10, 2026

PropertyGemini 3.1 ProGemini 4 Carbon
OrganizationGoogleGoogle
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateFeb 2026Nov 2026
Context Window1.0M1.0M
ParametersUnknownUnknown
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termscommercial use per vendor terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$2.00No published price
Output $/1M$12.00No published price
Vision Tasks
Promptable Concept SegmentationNot listedDemo
Both support 10 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
76.8%
89.4%
Avg cost / sample$0.010$0.0061
Avg speed / sample8.44s8.71s
By task
Object Detection (low)
67.4%
$0.010
84.5%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.2 to 84.8
$0.011
Object Detection (high)–
85.9%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 85.6 to 86.2
$0.102
Counting (low)
71.6%
$0.0071
90.1%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 89.2 to 91.9
$0.0024
Counting (high)–
86.9%
±2.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 83.8 to 89.2
$0.075
Identification (low)
100.0%
$0.0070
93.8%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.8 to 93.8
$0.0024
Identification (high)–
96.9%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9
$0.019
OCR (low)
72.6%
$0.010
87.2%
$0.0053
by category
Single value
67.8%
Transcription
88.5%
Structured JSON
82.0%
Text localization
52.0%
Single value
80.4%
Transcription
96.6%
Structured JSON
93.0%
Text localization
84.2%
OCR (high)
73.1%
$0.026
89.7%
$0.102
by category
Single value
68.7%
Transcription
90.8%
Structured JSON
83.9%
Text localization
47.1%
Single value
85.2%
Transcription
99.1%
Structured JSON
93.9%
Text localization
85.2%
Reasoning (low)
72.2%
$0.012
91.4%
±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.1 to 93.4
$0.0025
Reasoning (high)
74.8%
$0.021
92.3%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 92.0 to 92.7
$0.057

Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Gemini 4 Carbon: Overview

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Gemini 3.1 Pro is a proprietary multimodal model from Google’s Gemini 3 series, released in early 2026 and designed for advanced reasoning across large multimodal datasets. It accepts text, images, audio, video, and documents, supporting up to a 1-million-token input context with up to 64k output tokens. Compared with Gemini 3 Pro, it improves long-context synthesis and multi-step reasoning, enabling more reliable analysis of large documents, datasets, and software codebases.

The model also advances visual understanding and grounding, allowing it to interpret UI screenshots, diagrams, and real-world scenes while referencing specific regions within images or video. These capabilities make Gemini 3.1 Pro well suited for multimodal workflows involving document processing, interface analysis, robotics research, and complex visual reasoning.

Gemini 4 Carbon

Gemini 4 Carbon is a multimodal model from Google. It builds on Gemini 4 Argon and supports reasoning over text and images. Google describes improvements in coding and long-running tasks. Model weights are not publicly released.

Frequently Asked Questions

On Roboflow's Vision Evals, Gemini 4 Carbon performed better. It scores higher on 4 of the five vision tasks and averages 89.4% (#1 of 68) against 76.8% (#16 of 68) for Gemini 3.1 Pro. These scores measure vision capabilities only; either model may perform differently on work outside this benchmark's tasks.

No. On the Vision Evals Reasoning benchmark at low effort, Gemini 4 Carbon leads with 91.4% against 72.2%. This is the widest gap between the two models across the benchmark's tasks.

Gemini 4 Carbon is cheaper to run. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals task mix it averaged $0.0061 per sample against $0.010. Actual costs depend on your image sizes, prompts, and output length.

Gemini 3.1 Pro is faster. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals it averaged 8.4s per inference against 8.7s. Latency varies with image size, prompt length, and provider load, so treat these as relative rather than guaranteed figures.

Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for image captioning and open prompts in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.