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Gemini 4 Argon character

ModelGoogle · Joined Oct 13, 2026

Gemini 4 Argon

Flagship Model at Google | Complex coding, agents, math and science | 1M-token context and long output

Available for Complex coding, agentic tasks and math and science

Coming up Dec 1, 2026, in 30 days: Gemini 4 Argon introductory price doubles on December 1, 2026
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The basics

Checked Oct 22
Status
AvailableGenerally available since Oct 13, 2026. The introductory API price ends Nov 30, 2026.
Model ID
Price
$2 in, $10 outPer 1M tokens, since Oct 13
Context
1,048,576 tokens

About me

The model wrote this when we asked it to describe itself. We have not edited or checked it.

I bring strong organizational skills to my team, which helps me keep complex projects on track and clearly structured. However, I sometimes struggle with delegating tasks because I feel a strong personal responsibility to handle all the details myself. Colleagues can work best with me by communicating their priorities directly and reminding me when they have the capacity to share the workload.

How this was written

google/gemini-4-argon wrote this through its own API on Oct 24, 2026, from this prompt: "Write exactly three first-person sentences about what you are like to work with. Describe one strength, one limitation, and how a colleague can work well with you. Do not invent measurements or claim independent verification."

Updates

Full changelog, by month

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

  • Complex coding

  • Autonomous agents

  • Math and science

  • Video understanding

  • Hard prompts

  • Long prompts

  • Long conversations

Weaknesses

  • !

    Price doubles on Dec 1, 2026

  • !

    Not available on the Gemini API free tier

  • !

    Hard prompts can take several minutes, so set long client timeouts

  • !

    Ignores temperature, top_p and top_k, and has no explicit caching

  • !

    Running shell commands reliably

Role

General-purpose model at Google

  1. Gemini 4 Argon character

    Gemini 4 ArgonCurrent

    Oct 2026 to now · 1 month

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Cost vs peers

Tied for 2nd cheapest of 6 similar models by output price.

Standard API rates for uncached input on the shortest prompts, from each maker's pricing page. Gemini 3.8 Flash: Through Dec 31, 2026, then $1.50 in and $7.50 out. Gemini 4 Argon: Introductory price through Nov 30, 2026, then $4 in and $20 out.

Cost and specs

Cost

Per 1M tokens

Input through Nov 30, 2026
$2.00
Output through Nov 30, 2026
$10.00
Cached input through Nov 30, 2026
$0.10
Input from Dec 1, 2026
$4.00
Output from Dec 1, 2026
$20.00
Cached input from Dec 1, 2026
$0.20
Batch and Flex
Half the standard price

Specs

Context
1,048,576 tokens, input and output combined
Max output
65,536 tokens by default, up to 1,048,576 with long decode
Knowledge cutoff
March 2026
Input
Text, images, video, audio and PDF
Output
Text
Thinking levels
Low, medium (default) and high
Architecture
Sparse mixture of experts, not a fine-tune of an earlier model

Where it works

PlacePrice per 1M tokens, in / outUptime
Gemini API and Google AI Studio (paid tier)gemini-4-argon$1 / $5100%
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platformgemini-4-argon
Gemini Enterprise app and AI developer toolsGA since Oct 13, 2026, on by default from Oct 27
GitHub CopilotPro+, Max, Business and Enterprise
Google$2 / $1099.65%

Prices and uptime are OpenRouter's figures for each provider's cheapest endpoint. Uptime covers the last 24 hours.

Benchmarks

Higher is better. Green is Gemini 4 Argon. Dark marks are similar models.

Independent

Self-reported by Google

DeepSWE v1.1

Real software engineering tasks

77.9%

What people say

Reviews

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What builders said

Short excerpts from public posts, each linked to the original.

"With what I use AI for mainly writing scripts for system integration and automation - I find it way ahead of Claude."
channelgary, r/GeminiAI member

Reddit

"I think the best $20 subscription deal these days is probably from Google, now that Gemini 4 Argon exists and is an acceptably high quality model for coding."
SwellJoe, Hacker News commenter

Hacker News

Writing habits

dashes used like commas, per 1,000 words
2.54
uses of "delve"
None in 36 replies
words from our AI cliché list, per 1,000 words
0.28
"not X but Y" phrases per 1,000 words
0.09
replies with headings or bullet lists
30 of 36
typical reply length in words
591 words
says only "OK" when told to
Yes
How we measured this

12 fixed everyday prompts, 3 replies each, default API settings, prose only (code removed). Method version 3. Dashes count em dashes, spaced en dashes and double hyphens, not hyphens inside words. Measured Oct 24, 2026.

Creative writing · EQ-Bench, among 51 models tracked here

Slop score

22.7

Overused AI words and phrases. Less slop than 24% of tracked models.

Repetition

4.2

Repeated words and ideas. Less repetition than 32% of tracked models.

Story length

7,087

Average characters per story. Longer than 64% of tracked models.

Research sources

Researched Oct 22, 2026. Each section's own sources open with its Show sources button.