Gemini 4 Argon

Your browser does not support the video tag. 0:00 Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Opus 5.5: price and independent test results Argon vs Opus 5.5 in 30 Seconds Price: Argon’s $2 / $10 is a launch promotion. Google’s own footnote says the price moves to $4 / $20 once it ends, exactly what Opus 5.5 costs. No end date yet. Independent benchmarks: On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Opus 5.5 scores 58 and Argon 53. Cost per task is $1.99 for Argon at promo pricing versus $5.98 for Opus. Hallucinations: Argon’s hallucination rate is 15%, Opus 5.5’s is 59%. Argon says “I don’t know” far more often, while Opus knows more but also guesses when it shouldn’t. Coding: Opus leads Terminal-Bench 4.0 in both Google’s table and the independent run. Argon leads on workflow automation. Access: Opus 5.5 is available today. Argon is limited to selected cyber defense teams. When Google announced Gemini 4 Argon on September 30, the headline number was simple: a frontier model at half the price of Claude Opus 5.5. A day later, two things are clearer. That price has an expiry date, and the first independent benchmark run puts the two models in a different order than Google’s own chart. ...

Your browser does not support the video tag. 0:00 Gemini 4 Argon: price, 1M output tokens and benchmarks at a glance Gemini 4 Argon in 30 Seconds Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon on 30 September 2026. Today it is only rolling out to vetted cyber defenders in the Fairwind Program. Introductory price: $2 input / $10 output per million tokens, cached input 95% off. That is exactly half of Claude Opus 5.5, until the promo ends and the price moves to $4 / $20, the same as Opus. Output limit jumps from 64K to 1 million tokens. First on Vals Index, DeepSWE v1.1 and the legal and finance agent benchmarks. Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra still lead on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and FrontierSWE. No public date. Next in line: paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers. Google’s fourth-generation model is here, just not for you yet. Gemini 4 Argon goes first to teams that defend systems against cyberattacks; developers, businesses and consumers get it once Google finishes tightening its safeguards. The price is already public though, and it is aggressive: half of Claude Opus 5.5, a fifth of GPT-6 Astra. ...

Update: Gemini 4 Argon is announced Google announced Gemini 4 Argon on 30 September 2026: $2 in / $10 out, a 1M output token limit, and for now access only for cyber defenders. Price, benchmarks and rollout order: Gemini 4 Argon: Price, Access and Benchmarks . The post below describes the pre-launch picture. Gemini 4 in 30 seconds Gemini 4 is not out. As of 22 September 2026 there is no model page, no API model ID, no pricing and no benchmark table. Google has confirmed one thing only: pre-training began on 21 July 2026, described as its “most ambitious pre-training run yet.” The newest shipping model is still Gemini 3.8 Flash (2 September 2026). “October launch”, “2M context” and the “argon” codename all trace back to posts on X. None of them carry a Google source. Is Gemini 4 Out? No. As of 22 September 2026, Gemini 4 has not shipped. ...