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Gemini 4 Argon

API ID gemini-4-argon

Launched September 30, 2026

gemini-4-argon is a Google model, released September 2026. Standard price: $2.00 input and $10.00 output per 1M tokens.

Gemini 4 Argon
Google's description

Status: Active
Released: September 2026
Shutdown: none announced
Replacement: —

No deprecation or shutdown date has been announced as of October 15, 2026.

Benchmarks

Scores as each source published them

No comparison. Pick a model to see the difference on each benchmark.

Arena

Arena	Gemini 4 Argon	Rank	Date	Source
Text By category Math 1529 rank 1 Creative writing 1516 rank 2 Instruction following 1528 rank 1 Hard prompts 1550 rank 1 Long prompts 1544 rank 1 Multi-turn 1552 rank 1 Expert 1542 rank 3	1525 ±9	1 of 415 4,903 votes	Oct 13, 2026	source
Text: Coding	1561 ±17	1 of 410 1,226 votes	Oct 13, 2026	source
WebDev	1678 ±15	9 of 142 1,772 votes	Oct 13, 2026	source
Agent	0.137 ±0.015	4 of 54 28,097 sessions	Oct 14, 2026	source

Rated as gemini-4-argon-high (high effort). Text and WebDev ratings come from people voting between two anonymous answers; Text is style-controlled, as on arena.ai. Agent is Arena's separate score for real agent sessions, on its own scale. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0.

Epoch AI

Benchmark	Gemini 4 Argon	Setting	Run	Source
FrontierMath Tier 4	78.0%	high effort	Oct 13, 2026	source
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3	86.0%	high effort	Oct 13, 2026	source
GPQA Diamond	96.4%	high effort	Oct 13, 2026	source
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	100.0%	high effort	Oct 13, 2026	source
SimpleQA Verified	76.0%	high effort	Oct 13, 2026	source

Run independently by Epoch AI. Data: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (epoch.ai/benchmarks), CC BY.

On cloud platforms

All platform dates

Platform	Platform ID	State	Shutdown	Time left	Replacement	Source
Google Cloud Vertex AI	gemini-4-argon	Active	not before Oct 13, 2027		—	source

Read daily from each platform's own pages. The shutdown date and countdown on this page use Google's own date.

Price history

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier

We started recording this model's prices on Oct 14, 2026. The history grows with each daily check.

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From	Type	Price
Oct 14, 2026	Input	$2.00
Oct 14, 2026	Output	$10.00

Prices

USD per 1M tokens, every type and band, by tier

Type	Price $/1M	In effect
Standard
input	$2.00	until Nov 30, 2026
input	$4.00	from Dec 1, 2026
output	$10.00	until Nov 30, 2026
output	$20.00	from Dec 1, 2026
Batch
input	$1.00	until Nov 30, 2026
input	$2.00	from Dec 1, 2026
output	$5.00	until Nov 30, 2026
output	$10.00	from Dec 1, 2026
Flex
input	$1.00	until Nov 30, 2026
input	$2.00	from Dec 1, 2026
output	$5.00	until Nov 30, 2026
output	$10.00	from Dec 1, 2026
Priority
input	$3.60	until Nov 30, 2026
input	$7.20	from Dec 1, 2026
output	$18.00	until Nov 30, 2026
output	$36.00	from Dec 1, 2026

Changelog

Changes we detected on Google's pages

Oct 14, 2026
Platform date set
Google Cloud Vertex AI set a shutdown date for gemini-4-argon: not before Oct 13, 2027
Info
Oct 14, 2026
Price change scheduled
Google raises gemini-4-argon prices from Dec 1, 2026: input $2.00 → $4.00, output $10.00 → $20.00 per 1M tokens; batch, flex and priority tiers too
Heads-up
Oct 13, 2026
Added
Google added gemini-4-argon
Info