MODEL PROOF
Gemini 4 Argon
FRONTIER
Nothing scores at least as high for less, or higher for the same price, under this workload.
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.
- 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 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/flex Endpoint terms
| $1.00 | $5.00 | undeclared | 99.93% |
| Googlegoogle-vertex/global Endpoint terms
| $2.00 | $10.00 | undeclared | 99.72% |
| Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio Endpoint terms
| $2.00 | $10.00 | undeclared | 97.36% |
| Googlegoogle-vertex/us Endpoint terms
| $2.20 | $11.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Googlegoogle-vertex/global/priority Endpoint terms
| $3.60 | $18.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/priority Endpoint terms
| $3.60 | $18.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1533.2high |
|---|---|
| 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, 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, under confirmation since 2026-10-21 |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-21 |
| Held | Price and provider offers kept at the published record of 2026-10-18 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.
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