--- title: "Google: Gemini 4 Argon — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai" canonical: https://undominated.ai/models/google__gemini-4-argon/ description: "Google: Gemini 4 Argon: $4.00/M in, $20.00/M out (price under confirmation since 2026-10-21). Independent capability scores, and alternatives compared under recorded workload and capability requirements." --- # Google: Gemini 4 Argon — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai > Google: Gemini 4 Argon: $4.00/M in, $20.00/M out (price under confirmation since 2026-10-21). Independent capability scores, and alternatives compared under recorded workload and capability requirements. [Check base rates for this workload](/check/google__gemini-4-argon/) [Cheaper alternatives](/alternatives/) [Family](/families/) [Compare models](https://undominated.ai/compare/?models=google%2Fgemini-4-argon) Comparison context Choose up to three standard models in Compare. Requirements and prompt length apply in Compare. This page keeps its stated price basis and workload controls. MODEL PROOF # Gemini 4 Argon Google · 13 Oct 2026 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic FRONTIER ## Nothing scores at least as high for less, or higher for the same price, under this workload. **$8.00** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out Price under confirmation since 2026-10-21. Upstream lists another price for this model now, or other prices from its sellers. What is shown is the last we published; the new figures are published once a second day shows the same values. · Reasoning tokens are billed separately. Evidence as of 21 Oct 2026 [Published record of 2026-10-18, under confirmation since 2026-10-21](https://undominated.ai/data/publications/inputs/8ba94b5543c5fcd1786c345759a503c5cb91c8cfcc5e274d2b815e7d9c2435cc.json) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,533.2 ± 8.8 · 4,903 votes Context window 1.05M Maximum output 943.72K Input modalities audio, file, image, text, video Output modalities text Published input price $4.00 / 1M tokens Published output price $20.00 / 1M tokens Pricing kind fixed Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below. Price from Google: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery, with at least 90% of the reference context and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate. Price under confirmation since 2026-10-21 Upstream lists another price for this model now, or other prices from its sellers. What is shown is the last we published; the new figures are published once a second day shows the same values. Cheaper right now: $2.00 in · $10.00 out per million tokens at Google, a promotion of 50%. The price on this page is Google’s standard rate: the ranking uses the standard rate, never a promotion. Every price dimension · USD per million tokens | Input | $4.00 /M | | --- | --- | | Output | $20.00 /M | | Cached input | $0.200 /M | | Cache write | $0.375 /M | | Cache write 1h | Unknown /M | | Reasoning | $20.00 /M | | Web search | $0.014 /call | **Reasoning tokens are billed separately** at $20.00/M, on top of output. Its share of your bill depends on the reasoning tokens used. ### Who sells it The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs. 6 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test. | Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Google AI Studio google-ai-studio/flex Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.050 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 943,718 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 50% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $1.00 | Output $5.00 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.93% | | Seller Google google-vertex/global Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.100 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 50% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $2.00 | Output $10.00 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.72% | | Seller Google AI Studio google-ai-studio Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.100 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 943,718 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 50% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $2.00 | Output $10.00 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 97.36% | | Seller Google google-vertex/us Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.110 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 50% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $2.20 | Output $11.00 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 100.00% | | Seller Google google-vertex/global/priority Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.180 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 50% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown | Input $3.60 | Output $18.00 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 100.00% | | Seller Google AI Studio google-ai-studio/priority Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.180 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 943,718 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 50% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $3.60 | Output $18.00 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 100.00% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1533.2 high | | --- | --- | | LMArena row | gemini-4-argon-high | LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero. #### Best rankings by task - Game development #6 1376 - Websites #7 1315 - Data visualisation #7 1337 - 3D #7 1389 - Code categories #9 1328 - Spreadsheet #9 1147 - UI components #10 1331 Per-task Elo and rank from [Design Arena](https://designarena.ai), via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list. ### Capability | Context window | 1M | | --- | --- | | Max output | 943K | | Input modes | audio, file, image, text, video | | Tool use | yes | | Reasoning | always on | | Open weights | no | ### Provenance | Price source | [Published record of 2026-10-18](https://undominated.ai/data/publications/inputs/8ba94b5543c5fcd1786c345759a503c5cb91c8cfcc5e274d2b815e7d9c2435cc.json), under confirmation since 2026-10-21 | | --- | --- | | Fetched | 2026-10-21 | | Held | Price and provider offers kept at the [published record of 2026-10-18](https://undominated.ai/data/publications/inputs/8ba94b5543c5fcd1786c345759a503c5cb91c8cfcc5e274d2b815e7d9c2435cc.json) until a second day confirms the newer upstream value, or after 3 days until one day’s two readings agree. | | Quality data | verified | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across... ## Questions this page answers What does Gemini 4 Argon cost? $4.00/M in, $20.00/M out: the published record of 2026-10-18, under confirmation since 2026-10-21. That is the API row, not a subscription. Does Gemini 4 Argon have an independent quality score? Gemini 4 Argon has an LMArena score in this catalogue. What beats Gemini 4 Argon? Nothing scores at least as high as Gemini 4 Argon for less, or higher for the same price. Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Gemini 4 Argon? No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Google: Gemini 4 Argon. Balanced workload. Frontier. Evidence as of 21 Oct 2026. Price under confirmation since 21 Oct 2026. 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