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Gemini 4 Carbon vs Muse Ember

Gemini 4 Carbon and Muse Ember score 89.4% vs 76.6% averaged across five Vision Evals tasks (#1 and #17 of 68 models), so Gemini 4 Carbon leads overall.

  • Gemini 4 Carbon wins all 5 tasks, with its widest lead on object detection (84.5% vs 63.8%).
  • Muse Ember is about 1/7 of the cost: $0.0009 vs $0.0061 overall average cost per sample.
  • Muse Ember is faster: 6.1s vs 8.7s per sample.

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Gemini 4 Carbon vs Muse Ember on Vision Evals

Score by taskGemini 4 CarbonMuse Ember
Object Detection
84.5
63.8
OCR
87.2
69.5
Reasoning
91.4
78.2
Counting
90.1
79.7
Identification
93.8
91.7

Roboflow Vision Evals. Full breakdown below.

Gemini 4 Carbon vs Muse Ember Comparison Table

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

PropertyGemini 4 CarbonMuse Ember
OrganizationGoogleMeta
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateNov 2026Nov 2026
Context Window1.0M1.0M
ParametersUnknownUnknown
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termscommercial use per vendor terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1MNo published price$0.100
Output $/1MNo published price$0.500
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoSupported
ClassificationDemoSupported
Object DetectionDemoSupported
OCRDemoSupported
Visual Question AnsweringDemoSupported
Promptable Concept SegmentationDemoNot listed
Both support 5 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
89.4%
76.6%
Avg cost / sample$0.0061$0.0009
Avg speed / sample8.71s6.08s
By task
Object Detection (low)
84.5%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.2 to 84.8
$0.011
63.8%
±0.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 63.3 to 64.3
$0.0011
Object Detection (high)
85.9%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 85.6 to 86.2
$0.102
64.0%
±0.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 63.5 to 64.5
$0.0017
Counting (low)
90.1%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 89.2 to 91.9
$0.0024
79.7%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 81.1
$0.0006
Counting (high)
86.9%
±2.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 83.8 to 89.2
$0.075
79.3%
±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 79.7
$0.0011
Identification (low)
93.8%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.8 to 93.8
$0.0024
91.7%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8
$0.0004
Identification (high)
96.9%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9
$0.019
90.6%
±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 93.8
$0.0007
OCR (low)
87.2%
$0.0053
69.5%
$0.0010
by category
Single value
80.4%
Transcription
96.6%
Structured JSON
93.0%
Text localization
84.2%
Single value
61.7%
Transcription
95.5%
Structured JSON
85.1%
Text localization
35.3%
OCR (high)
89.7%
$0.102
70.5%
$0.0017
by category
Single value
85.2%
Transcription
99.1%
Structured JSON
93.9%
Text localization
85.2%
Single value
63.0%
Transcription
90.2%
Structured JSON
87.2%
Text localization
35.9%
Reasoning (low)
91.4%
±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.1 to 93.4
$0.0025
78.2%
±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 76.8 to 79.5
$0.0006
Reasoning (high)
92.3%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 92.0 to 92.7
$0.057
81.9%
±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 80.1 to 83.4
$0.0013

Gemini 4 Carbon vs Muse Ember: Overview

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.

Muse Ember

Muse Ember is a proprietary multimodal reasoning model from Meta, released on November 9, 2026. It accepts text, images, video, audio, and PDF documents and returns text. The Meta Model API serves it as muse-ember-1.0, with a 1,048,576-token context window and up to 524,288 output tokens. Reasoning effort is adjustable from minimal to max.

Meta positions Ember for repeated tasks within larger agent workflows: tool calls, routing, coding subtasks, and processing collections of images and documents. It can caption or sort photos and extract fields from records while a larger Muse model handles planning. Meta recommends Spark or Wonder for harder single-shot coding and knowledge-heavy problems. Ember is available as a hosted model; its weights are not publicly released.

Frequently Asked Questions

On Roboflow's Vision Evals, Gemini 4 Carbon performed better. It scores higher on all five vision tasks and averages 89.4% (#1 of 68) against 76.6% (#17 of 68) for Muse Ember. These scores measure vision capabilities only; either model may perform differently on work outside this benchmark's tasks.

Yes. On the Vision Evals Object Detection benchmark at low effort, Gemini 4 Carbon leads with 84.5% against 63.8%. This is the widest gap between the two models across the benchmark's tasks.

Muse Ember is cheaper to run. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals task mix it averaged $0.0009 per sample against $0.0061. Actual costs depend on your image sizes, prompts, and output length.

Muse Ember is faster. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals it averaged 6.1s per inference against 8.7s. Latency varies with image size, prompt length, and provider load, so treat these as relative rather than guaranteed figures.