AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — Aleph Alpha
Kolibri is a mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Aleph Alpha for German and English, released on October 3, 2026 and built for public administration and industry, with deployment on customer-controlled infrastructure. It supports a reasoning mode and tool calling.
Model B — Google DeepMind
Gemini 4 Hydrogen is Google's fast Gemini 4 model for everyday coding and agentic work, released on November 12, 2026 in the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, the Gemini app and Google Search. Adapted from Gemini 4 Carbon, it takes text, image, audio and video input, offers four thinking levels, and has a March 2026 knowledge cutoff.
| Property | Kolibri | Gemini 4 Hydrogen |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Oct 3, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| Developer | Aleph Alpha | Google DeepMind |
| Type | reasoning | reasoning |
| License | open-weight | proprietary |
| Context window | 1,048,576 | — |
| Parameters | 78B total, 3.46B active per token (Mixture-of-Experts) | — |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $/M tokens | — | $7.50 |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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