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Gemini 4 Argon (High)

GoogleGeminiProprietary

Description

Gemini 4 Argon is Google DeepMind's flagship Gemini 4 reasoning model for long-horizon software engineering, enterprise knowledge work (legal and finance), cybersecurity defense, and multimodal understanding (charts and video). It shares a 1,048,576-token context window and supports long decodes up to 1M tokens. As of 2026-10-13 it is generally available on the Gemini API paid tier (endpoint id gemini-4-argon); it is not available on the free tier. Introductory Gemini API pricing is $2.00 per million input tokens, $10.00 per million output tokens (including thinking tokens), and $0.10 per million cached input tokens through 2026-11-30; standard pricing of $4.00/$20.00/$0.20 begins 2026-12-01. Explicit caching is not supported (implicit caching only). Thinking levels are low, medium, and high.

Release Date
2026-09-30
Parameters
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Context Length
1.0M
Modalities
audio, image, pdf, text, video

Capability Radar

50
general
60
coding
60
reasoning
77
scienceest.
50
agents
80
multimodal

Science is estimated from LLM Stats science scores or reasoning when no dedicated science benchmarks are available.

Rankings

Domain#RankScoreSource
Agentic Capability13
64.0
LS
Code Ranking14
90.0
LB
General Ranking9
77.0
AA
Multimodal Ranking20
63.0
LS
Reasoning1
95.0
LB
Science8
77.0
AA

Benchmark Scores (LLM Stats)

(LLM Stats (zeroeval))

Agents

AutomationBench51.3%SR
PostTrainBench45.3%SR
Agents' Last Exam39.5%SR

Biology

LABBench288.8%SR

Code

Vibe Code Bench91.9%SR
DeepSWE 1.177.9%SR
CWE-Bench68.0%SR
FrontierSWE V255.0%SR

Finance

Vals Finance Agent v265.4%SR

Healthcare

LifeSci Diamond (2026-11)0.0%

Knowledge

Vals Index68.9%SR

Legal

Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark19.6%SR

Math

RiemannBench76.0%SR

Multimodal

OSWorld 2.069.2%SR

Reasoning

Graphwalks BFS <128k99.7%SR
Graphwalks BFS >128k84.2%SR
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.157.6%SR
Terminal-Bench 4.057.4%SR

Vision

LVBench91.7%SR
Chartography (no tools)71.6%SR

AA Evaluation Indices

(Artificial Analysis)
Engineering(Artificial Analysis)
57.3
Strategy And Ops
57.2
Finance And Accounting
55.9
Legal
54.6
Economics
52.6
Healthcare And Medical
51.3
Intelligence Index(Artificial Analysis)
50.4

LLM Stats Category Scores

(LLM Stats (zeroeval))
Long Context
90
Science
90
Spatial Reasoning
90
Biology
90
Multimodal
80
Vision
80
Safety
70
Finance
70
General
70
Reasoning
60
Agents
60
Code
60
Systems
50
Tool Calling
50
Knowledge
40
Legal
20

Pricing

Input Price$2 / 1M tokens
Output Price$10 / 1M tokens
Blended Price (3:1)$4 / 1M tokens
Cache Read Price$0.1 / 1M tokens

Speed

Tokens/sec87.5
Time to First Token49.93s
Time to Answer49.93s

Provider Price Ranking

Provider Price Ranking

17 providers

Cheapest: UplinkSwitchMost Expensive: Neon
ProviderInputOutput
1UplinkSwitchCheapest
$0.6
$3
2AIGROW
$1
$5
3GooglePRIMARY
$2
$10
4OpenCode Go
$2
$10
5GitHub Copilot
$2
$10
6OpenCode
$2
$10
7AIHubMix
$2
$10
8Requesty
$2
$10
9Vertex
$2
$10
10Cortecs
$2.25
$11.249
11Venice AI
$2.5
$12.5
12DotHoosh
$2.56667
$12.83334
13Gisoo
$2.8
$14
14302.AI
$4
$10
15FrogBot
$4
$20
16DevPass (LLM Gateway)
$4
$20
17Neon
$4
$20

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