Gemini 4 Argon

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Google's efficient Gemini 4 frontier reasoning model: announced 30 Sep 2026 to trusted cyber defenders and opened to paying API developers on 13 Oct 2026 (the release date shown). $2/$10 per 1M tokens introductory (cache reads $0.10, 95% off input), the same launch price as Gemini 4 Carbon; Google's pricing page lists the rate rising to $4/$20 after the introductory period, which Artificial Analysis already quotes. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 scores it 50 at high effort at $9.95 per Index task, 113M output tokens (median 72.8M) and 66 tokens/s. Google's launch post reports 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1 and 51.3% on AutomationBench (#1 at launch). 1,048,576-token window shared between input and output, 65,536 output tokens per synchronous request, multimodal in, text out. Google positions it as quicker with fewer tokens per turn than Carbon.

Context Window

1M

tokens

Max Output

66K

tokens

Input Price

$2

per 1M tokens

Output Price

$10

per 1M tokens

Speed

66

tokens/sec

Released

Oct 2026

2026-10-13

Blended Cost

$6.00

per 1M tokens

Value Score

16.0

quality per $

Capabilities

ChatVisionFunction CallingCode GenerationReasoning

Benchmarks

Quality Index
96

Price vs Quality

6080100$1.00$10.00$100.00Blended cost per 1M tokens (log scale) →GPT-4o — $6.25/1M, quality 85GPT-4o Mini — $0.375/1M, quality 72o3 Mini — $2.75/1M, quality 88o3 — $5.00/1M, quality 94GPT-4.1 — $5.00/1M, quality 89Claude Opus 4 — $45.00/1M, quality 91Claude Sonnet 4 — $9.00/1M, quality 88Claude 3.5 Haiku — $2.40/1M, quality 75Gemini 2.5 Pro — $5.63/1M, quality 92Gemini 2.0 Flash — $0.250/1M, quality 74Llama 4 Maverick — $0.400/1M, quality 80Llama 4 Scout — $0.275/1M, quality 71Mistral Large 2 — $4.00/1M, quality 79Codestral — $0.600/1M, quality 76DeepSeek V3 — $0.685/1M, quality 86DeepSeek R1 — $1.37/1M, quality 91Grok 3 — $9.00/1M, quality 87Grok 3 Mini — $0.400/1M, quality 78Command R+ — $6.25/1M, quality 68Amazon Nova Pro — $2.00/1M, quality 70Qwen 2.5 72B — $0.600/1M, quality 80Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B — $0.300/1M, quality 74Sonar Pro — $9.00/1M, quality 78GPT-5.5 — $17.50/1M, quality 97GPT-5.5 Pro — $105.00/1M, quality 96Claude Opus 4.7 — $15.00/1M, quality 96Gemini 3.1 Pro — $7.00/1M, quality 96DeepSeek V4 Pro — $1.32/1M, quality 89DeepSeek V4 Flash — $0.210/1M, quality 84Qwen 3.6 Plus — $3.50/1M, quality 86Grok 4.3 — $1.88/1M, quality 93Kimi K2.6 — $2.11/1M, quality 92Kimi K3 — $9.00/1M, quality 97Claude Sonnet 4.6 — $9.00/1M, quality 90GLM-5.1 — $2.03/1M, quality 88Claude Opus 4.8 — $15.00/1M, quality 98Qwen 3.7 Max — $5.00/1M, quality 94Claude Fable 5 — $30.00/1M, quality 99MiniMax M3 — $1.50/1M, quality 89GPT-5.6 Sol — $17.50/1M, quality 98GPT-5.6 Terra — $7.00/1M, quality 93GPT-5.6 Luna — $0.700/1M, quality 83Gemini 3.6 Flash — $2.25/1M, quality 90Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite — $1.40/1M, quality 79Claude Sonnet 5 — $6.00/1M, quality 93GLM-5.2 — $2.90/1M, quality 91Claude Opus 5 — $15.00/1M, quality 99Claude Mythos 5 — $30.00/1M, quality 99Grok 4.5 — $4.00/1M, quality 94Qwen3.8 Max — $4.00/1M, quality 96GPT-6 Astra — $30.00/1M, quality 99Claude Fable 5.1 — $30.00/1M, quality 99DeepSeek V4.1 Flash — $0.750/1M, quality 92GLM-5.3 — $2.90/1M, quality 96GLM-5.3 Flash — $0.325/1M, quality 93Muse Spark 1.3 — $2.75/1M, quality 97Grok 4.6 — $4.00/1M, quality 95Gemini 3.8 Flash — $2.25/1M, quality 93Claude Opus 5.5 — $12.00/1M, quality 99Claude Sonnet 5.5 — $6.00/1M, quality 99GPT-6.1 Sol — $6.00/1M, quality 98GPT-6 Sol — $6.00/1M, quality 97GPT-6 Luna — $0.300/1M, quality 89Claude Fable 5.2 — $24.00/1M, quality 100Claude Mythos 5.2 — $24.00/1M, quality 100Claude Haiku 5.5 — $0.300/1M, quality 91Gemini 4 Carbon — $6.00/1M, quality 99GPT-6.1 Terra — $3.00/1M, quality 96Mistral Large 4 — $1.40/1M, quality 87Gemini 4 Argon — $6.00/1M, quality 96Gemini 4 Argon
Cheaper is left, more capable is up. 4 of 69 priced models are both cheaper and score at least as high. Self-host models are left off the price axis — their cost depends on the hardware you run them on, not on tokens.

Context Window in Context

  • GPT-5.6 Sol1.1M
  • GPT-5.6 Terra1.1M
  • GPT-5.6 Luna1.1M
  • GPT-6 Astra1.1M
  • ▸ Gemini 4 Argon1.0M
  • Kimi K31.0M
  • Gemini 4 Carbon1.0M
  • Kimi K3.1 Pro1.0M
Bar length is logarithmic — each full step is 10× the tokens. Shown against the models with the nearest context windows, not the directory extremes.

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Swfte Connect no tiene una clave para Gemini 4 Argon, así que aquí no hay nada que ejecutar. Añade tu propia clave del proveedor y llámalo con la misma API que cualquier otro modelo de este directorio.

La petición
curl https://api.swfte.com/agents/v2/gateway/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SWFTE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "google:gemini-4-argon",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'
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About Gemini 4 Argon

Gemini 4 Argon is a flagship AI model by Google, released on October 13, 2026. It supports a context window of 1049K tokens and can generate up to 66K output tokens.

At $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, its blended cost of $6.00/1M tokens places it in the premium pricing tier. Its value score of 16.0 reflects the balance of quality and cost.

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