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Gemini 4 Argon
Generally available Gemini 4 reasoning model (Oct 2026) for complex software engineering, agents, math and science. Text, image, video, audio and PDF input, text output, in a unified 1,048,576-token window shared by input and output.
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Key specs
- Provider
- Family
- Gemini 4
- API identifier
- gemini-4-argon
- Availability
- Available
- Release date
- 2026-10-13
- License
- Proprietary (Gemini API Additional Terms of Service)
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Max output
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Knowledge cutoff
- March 2026
- API access
- Yes
- Consumer app
- Yes
Capabilities
Inputs
- Text input Yes
- Image input Yes
- Audio input Yes
- Video input Yes
- File input Yes PDF input
Outputs
- Text output Yes
- Image output No Image generation: not supported
- Audio output No Audio generation: not supported
Features
- Reasoning Native Thinking levels low, medium (default) and high; no minimal level and no setting to turn thinking off is documented
- Tool calling Yes Function calling supported
- Web search Yes Grounding with Google Search supported (billed per search request)
"Unknown" means we have not verified this capability yet; it does not mean the model lacks it.
Pricing
Estimate your monthly cost →| Dimension | Tier | Price | Since | Verified | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input tokens | base | $2.00 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 | Gemini Developer API pricing Standard, paid tier. Introductory price through 2026-11-30; $4.00 from 2026-12-01 |
| Cached input tokens | base | $0.10 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 | Gemini Developer API pricing Context caching price; implicit caching only (explicit caching is not supported). Introductory price through 2026-11-30; $0.20 from 2026-12-01 |
| Output tokens | base | $10.00 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 | Gemini Developer API pricing Includes thinking tokens. Introductory price through 2026-11-30; $20.00 from 2026-12-01 |
| Batch input tokens | base | $1.00 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 | Gemini Developer API pricing Batch API price as listed on pricing page (50% of Standard). Introductory price through 2026-11-30; $2.00 from 2026-12-01 |
| Batch output tokens | base | $5.00 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 | Gemini Developer API pricing Batch API price as listed on pricing page (50% of Standard), includes thinking tokens. Introductory price through 2026-11-30; $10.00 from 2026-12-01 |
| Tool and search requests | Grounding with Google Maps | $14.00 per 1,000 requests | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 | Gemini Developer API pricing Paid tier: 5,000 free requests per month (shared across all Gemini 3 and newer models), then USD 14 per 1,000 search queries |
| Grounding with Google Search | $14.00 per 1,000 requests | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 | Gemini Developer API pricing Paid tier: 5,000 free search requests per month (shared across all Gemini 3 and newer models), then this price; each Google Search query triggered by a request is charged |
Prices are shown in the currency the provider publishes; we never convert currencies.
Price history (7 entries)
| Dimension | Tier | Price | From | Until |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input tokens | base | $2.00 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-25 | current |
| Cached input tokens | base | $0.10 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-25 | current |
| Output tokens | base | $10.00 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-25 | current |
| Batch input tokens | base | $1.00 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-25 | current |
| Batch output tokens | base | $5.00 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-25 | current |
| Tool and search requests | Grounding with Google Maps | $14.00 per 1,000 requests | 2026-10-25 | current |
| Tool and search requests | Grounding with Google Search | $14.00 per 1,000 requests | 2026-10-25 | current |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Setting | Score | Reported by | Measured | Verified | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationBench % tasks completed correctly, higher is better | v1.0.6; high effort | 51.29 % | Third party | — | 2026-10-25 | AutomationBench AI benchmark leaderboard (Zapier) |
| v1.0.6; medium effort | 50.08 % | Third party | — | 2026-10-25 | AutomationBench AI benchmark leaderboard (Zapier) | |
| DeepSWE v1.1 % resolved (pass@1), higher is better | v1.1; high effort; mini-swe-agent harness | 77.9 % | Self-reported | — | 2026-10-25 | Gemini 4 Argon model card - Google DeepMind |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) accuracy %, higher is better | Tiers 1-3 v2; high effort; Epoch harness (Python tool) | 86 % | Third party | 2026-10-13 | 2026-10-25 | FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) leaderboard (Epoch AI) |
| GDPval-AA v2.1 Elo, higher is better | v2.1; high effort; Artificial Analysis Stirrup agent harness | 1,624 Elo | Third party | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 | GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis) |
| OSWorld 2.0 % tasks completed, higher is better | v2026.08.08, offline set, partial score; high effort; batch tool; max 500 steps, best of 3 runs | 69.2 % | Self-reported | — | 2026-10-25 | Gemini 4 Argon model card - Google DeepMind |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 % tasks resolved, higher is better | high effort; harness not stated (self-computed by Google) | 57.4 % | Self-reported | — | 2026-10-25 | Gemini 4 Argon model card - Google DeepMind |
| Text Arena Arena score, higher is better | Overall, style control on; high effort | 1,517 | Third party | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-25 | Text Arena leaderboard (Arena) |
Leaderboard versions (for example 1.0.5 and 1.0.6) are not comparable. Some results use fallback routing for refused steps: for "Claude Fable 5.1 (with Opus 5 Fallback)", Opus 5 handled 260 of 657 tasks. Artificial Analysis runs a separate leaderboard, AutomationBench-AA, which uses a guardrail-adjusted metric; its scores are not comparable with Zapier's. The partial_credit metric is for diagnostics only. The leaderboard shows no per-row evaluation dates.
The official leaderboard uses mini-swe-agent for all models and shows whole-number percentages with margins of about ±1 to ±6 points. Providers often report scores from their own scaffolds or effort settings; DeepSeek reports 65.5% to 74.2% for the same model depending on the scaffold. DeepSWE v1 scores are not comparable with v1.1. With only 113 tasks, small differences are within noise.
FrontierMath was developed with funding from OpenAI, which has exclusive access to a subset of the problems. Scores from v1 and from Tier 4 (a separate 43-problem expansion set) are not comparable with Tiers 1-3 (v2). The best models score about 94%, so the benchmark separates mid-size models better than it separates frontier models. Epoch's numbers come from its own harness (Python tool, 1M-token limit), which can differ from providers' internal setups. Margins are about ±1.4 to ±2.6 points.
Elo is a relative rating: values change as models are added and the scale is re-anchored, so always store the date a rating was read. For example, Anthropic's launch page gives 1846 for Claude Opus 5.5, while the leaderboard on 2026-10-12 shows 1866 (Max, Default Fallback). Earlier versions (Google cites "GDPVal-AA v2") are not comparable. Judging is done by an LLM, not by human experts. Anthropic models are listed with "Default Fallback", meaning refused steps are routed to a fallback model. AA-Briefcase and GDP.pdf are separate evaluations.
Numbers are only comparable when release, task set (full or offline), metric (binary or partial), step budget (150, 300 or 500) and agent approach (standard or batch tool calls) all match. Providers usually quote partial scores, which are much higher than binary completion. Claude Opus 5 at max effort on v2.1 scores 44.33% binary and 77.67% partial. The verified leaderboard is run by the maintainers and covers few current models, so most numbers are self-reported. The original OSWorld and OSWorld-Verified (369 tasks) are a different benchmark and are not recorded here.
Scores depend heavily on the agent harness (for example Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build or mini-SWE-agent) and on the reasoning effort, so the same model appears several times on the leaderboard. Leaderboard rows are often submitted by the organisation that builds the agent. Providers' own runs can differ from the leaderboard: Anthropic reports 66.4% for Claude Opus 5.5 at max effort, while the leaderboard lists 64.8% ± 3.1%. Versions 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0 and Artificial Analysis' "Terminal-Bench Hard" use different task sets and are not comparable with 4.0. Margins are about ±3 points.
Scores measure voter preference, which can be influenced by answer style and length. The leaderboard offers a style-control adjustment, so record which view was used. Scores shift with every update, so a value is only meaningful together with its leaderboard date. Entries marked "Preliminary" or with few votes have wide confidence intervals. The same model can appear several times with different reasoning-effort suffixes (for example -high or -max). Category views (Coding, Math, Creative Writing and others) are different rankings from Overall.
One row per result, without rank numbers: each result was measured under its own setting (effort level, harness, tools, test version), as stated by the source, and scores compare only within the same setting. Self-reported results come from the provider and have not been reproduced independently.
Rankings
- #1 of 26 in Best AI for students as of 2026-10-26
- #2 of 20 in Best AI for coding as of 2026-10-27
- #3 of 39 in Best AI for business as of 2026-10-26
- #6 of 42 in Best AI API as of 2026-10-26
Derived from our published ranking snapshots; each ranking explains its criteria and weights.
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Guides
- AI token pricing explained: input, output, cached and batch rates
- Reasoning models explained: thinking modes, effort and cost
- Multimodal AI explained: image, audio, video and file inputs, and what they cost
- Context windows explained: limits, long-context pricing and recall
- How to choose an AI model: a practical decision framework
About Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon (gemini-4-argon) became generally available in the Gemini API on 13 October 2026. Google describes it as its flagship reasoning model, aimed at complex software engineering, math and science problems, autonomous multi-step agents and long outputs. According to its model card it is a sparse mixture-of-experts model and not a fine-tune of an earlier model. It accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input and returns text. Input, thinking and output share one 1,048,576-token window: a synchronous response is capped at 65,536 tokens by default, and longer responses up to the window size minus the input require background execution (long decode). Thinking levels are low, medium (default) and high. In the Gemini app it is rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
Strengths and weaknesses
Strengths
- Unified 1,048,576-token window; with long decode a single response can exceed 65,536 tokens, up to the window minus the input
- Accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input
- Supports function calling, code execution, file search, Google Search and Google Maps grounding, URL context, structured outputs and computer use (preview)
- Implicit caching for prompts of at least 4,096 tokens with a 95% input discount on cache hits; available via Batch, Flex and Priority inference
Weaknesses
- Text output only; no image or audio generation
- Explicit context caching is not supported, and temperature, top_p and top_k are ignored
- Outputs above 65,536 tokens require background execution, and Google recommends client timeouts of at least 15 minutes
- Not available on the free API tier; current prices are introductory until 2026-11-30 and double from 2026-12-01 ($4.00 input / $20.00 output per 1M tokens)
Sources
- Gemini 4 Argon | Gemini API
- What's new in Gemini 4 Argon | Gemini API
- Release notes | Gemini API
- Gemini 4 Argon model card - Google DeepMind
- Gemini API Additional Terms of Service | Google AI for Developers
- Gemini Developer API pricing
- FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) leaderboard (Epoch AI)
- GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis)
- AutomationBench AI benchmark leaderboard (Zapier)
- Text Arena leaderboard (Arena)
Last verified Page updated 2026-10-26