10% offGoogle: Gemini 4 Hydrogen API
Google·Vision
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...
Pricing
Cheapest live price, per 1 million tokens.
Input / 1M tokens
$0.750 OpenRouter
Output / 1M tokens
$3.75 OpenRouter
Cache read / 1M
Repeated prompt prefixes
Cache write / 1M
Writing to the prompt cache
Cache read is the discounted rate for repeated prompt prefixes (system prompts, agent context).
Capabilities · 11
Specifications
- Context window
- 1.0M
- Max output
- 524K
- Type
- Vision
- Creator
- Live sellers
- 4
- Requests / 24h
- 42
Estimated monthly cost
30 days at the cheapest live price.
Quick start
OpenAI-compatible — change the base URL and key. Get a key from the dashboard.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.qubax.ai/v1",
api_key="YOUR_QUBAX_API_KEY",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gemini-4-hydrogen",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen is a multimodal language model developed by Google. It's particularly well-suited for analyzing images, screenshots, and visual content, tackling complex, multi-step reasoning problems, orchestrating tool-using agents that call APIs and external services, grounding responses in real-time web search results, producing structured outputs for reliable data extraction and handling large contexts of up to 1.0M tokens. Its 1.0M-token context window means you can pass in entire documents, codebases, or conversation histories without losing context. It can write up to 524K tokens in a single response.
As of Nov 13, 2026, Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen costs $0.675 per 1M input tokens and $3.38 per 1M output tokens on Qubax, versus $0.750 / $3.75 on OpenRouter (10% less on input). A typical 1,000 chat requests (2K tokens in, 500 out) come to about $3.04. 4 independent compute providers currently serve it, so requests fail over automatically. Pay with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH or 350+ other coins — no credit card required.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does the Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen API cost?
On Qubax, Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen costs $0.675 per 1M input tokens and $3.38 per 1M output tokens. This is 10% cheaper than OpenRouter's price of $0.750 per 1M input tokens.
Is the Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen API compatible with OpenAI?
Yes. Qubax provides an OpenAI-compatible API. You can use Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen as a drop-in replacement by changing your base URL to https://api.qubax.ai/v1 and using your Qubax API key. It works with Cline, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, and any tool that supports OpenAI APIs.
Why is Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen cheaper on Qubax than OpenRouter?
Qubax sources AI inference from an open compute marketplace on the Base blockchain where GPU providers compete on price. We pass the savings to you — 10% cheaper than OpenRouter's price for Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen.
How do I pay for Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen API usage?
Qubax uses prepaid crypto credits. Top up with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL or 350+ other coins and your balance is deducted as you use the API. No credit card or KYC required.
What is the context window of Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen?
Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen supports a context window of 1.0M tokens, allowing you to process large documents, codebases, or long conversations in a single request.
What can I build with Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen?
You can use Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen to analyze images and visual content, tackle complex multi-step reasoning tasks, build autonomous agents that call external tools and APIs, answer questions with real-time web search, generate structured JSON output for data pipelines and process long documents and entire codebases. Because it's served through Qubax's OpenAI-compatible API, integration into existing apps, agents, or workflows takes just a few lines of code.
How fast and reliable is Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen on Qubax?
Responses stream token by token. 4 sellers serve it, so if one is slow or down the request moves to the next.
Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Terra Pro: which should I choose?
Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen by Google and OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Terra Pro by OpenAI are both strong models in a similar price tier. Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen excels at complex reasoning and supports vision/image inputs. OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Terra Pro comes from a different lab and may have different strengths depending on your workload. On Qubax, Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen starts at $0.675/1M input tokens versus OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Terra Pro's $0.975/1M — making Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen the more cost-effective option for high-volume workloads. Both are available on Qubax with crypto payments and OpenAI-compatible APIs, so you can try each and switch freely.
Can I use Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen for commercial projects?
Yes. Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen on Qubax can be used for commercial purposes. You own the outputs you generate. Qubax provides the API infrastructure — you bring your use case.
Why use Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen on Qubax?
10% cheaper
Providers compete on price — you get the cheapest healthy seller.
Pay with crypto
350+ coins (BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC). No card, no KYC.
OpenAI & Anthropic compatible
Drop-in base URL. Works with Cline, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs.