Gemini 4 Argon
Google's next flagship AI model for writing, answering questions and reasoning, currently open only to limited testers rather than the public.
Key facts
- Released
- Sep 30, 2026
- What it does
- Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Thinks first: Can reason step by step before it answers: slower, but better at maths, code and tricky questions.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Reads files: Reads documents such as PDFs.Listens: Understands speech and other sounds.Watches video: Understands video clips you share with it.
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- Knowledge cutoff
- March 2026 · the latest events it learned about
- How
- Limited access (waitlist or partners)
- Announced as
- “Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence”
From trckr's archive of releases before it started watching. Date and details from Epoch AI's database of AI models (CC BY 4.0).
Price and limits
What developers pay to use it through the API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet., per million Tokens: The small chunks of text a model reads and writes, about three-quarters of a word each. Prices and limits are counted in tokens. sent (input) or written back (output), and how much it can take in at once.
- Input
- $2.00
- per million tokensCached: $0.10
- Output
- $10.00
- per million tokens
- Context window: How much a model can keep in mind at once: your question, any files you share and its own replies. Measured in tokens; 1,000 tokens is about 750 words.
- 1.05M tokens
- about 790,000 words
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- Longest answer
- 33K tokens (about 25,000 words)
From the lab's own listing on models.dev and OpenRouter, checked .
How it scores
From independent testers, never the lab's own claims.
- Combined test score#6 of 235
- GPT-6 Astra169
- 2GPT-6.1 Sol169
- 5Claude Fable 5.1167
- 6Gemini 4 Argon166
- 7Claude Sonnet 5.5166
Source: Epoch AI · Epoch Capabilities Index
- Chat answers, by people's votes#2 of 86
- Gemini 4 Carbon1,527
- 2Gemini 4 Argon1,522
- 3Muse Wonder1,512
- 4Claude Opus 5.51,506
- 5Claude Fable 51,504
Source: LMArena · LMArena text, adjusted for style
- Building apps, by people's votes#10 of 85
- Claude Opus 5.51,818
- 2Claude Sonnet 5.51,773
- 9Kimi K3.1 Pro1,687
- 10Gemini 4 Argon1,683
- 11GPT-6.1 Terra1,678
Source: LMArena · LMArena WebDev
Compare Gemini 4 Argon with
It came out 13 days after Antigravity Agent 09-2026, the lab's previous model.
The details
Google's new Frontier model: The most capable models of the moment, from the handful of labs at the cutting edge. text model Gemini 4 Argon, released with limited access and no public size listed.
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