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Gemini 4 Argon API pricing.

Gemini 4 Argon is Google’s model on the API market, released 13 Oct 2026. Prices are per million tokens in USD, as last read from the price list.

$2.00Input / 1M
$10Output / 1M
1.0MContext
944KMax output
Capability scores
Epoch AI
Maths3 of 4 benchmarks88
Science and knowledge2 of 2 benchmarks86
Coding1 of 2 benchmarks59
Reasoning and puzzles2 of 2 benchmarks59
Agents and long tasks2 of 3 benchmarks63

Each bar is this model's score in that area. The white tick marks the best score any model Epoch has tested reaches there.

Epoch Capabilities Index
166
Range 163 to 170 · #7 of 271 models Epoch has scored
Maths
88average of 3 of 4 Epoch results
FrontierMath (tiers 1 to 3) (high)86%
FrontierMath (tier 4) (high)78%
OTIS Mock AIME (high)100.0%
Science and knowledge
86average of 2 of 2 Epoch results
GPQA Diamond (high)96%
SimpleQA Verified (high)76%
Coding
59average of 1 of 2 Epoch results
MirrorCode (high)59%
Reasoning and puzzles
59average of 2 of 2 Epoch results
Chess puzzles (high)59%
Mystery game puzzles (high)64%
Agents and long tasks
63average of 2 of 3 Epoch results
Furniture assembly (high)73%
EBR-bench (game agent) (high)65%

The index combines many benchmarks into one general-capability score; the range is how sure Epoch is of the number. Each area score is this site's average of the model's Epoch results in that area, where 0 is what guessing would score and 100 is perfect. Compare every model, and value for money →

Source: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (licensed CC BY 4.0). Data refreshed 2 November 2026. These are Epoch's own tests; other benchmark sites can rank models differently.

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Specification
USD per million tokens
Provider
Google
Model id
google/gemini-4-argon
Input
$2.00
Output
$10
Cached input
$0.10
Context window
1.0M tokens
Maximum output
944K tokens
Takes
audio, file, image, text, video
Returns
text
Tool use
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
Released
13 Oct 2026
First tracked
13 Oct 2026

At $2.00 per million input tokens, Gemini 4 Argon is dearer than 264 of the 340 models on the price list.

Price changes
Tracked since 17 Sept 2026

No price change has been recorded since tracking began on 17 Sept 2026. Prices are checked every six hours, and any change is listed here and on model changes.

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Coverage
6 stories
  1. TechRadar AI ·
    Google's Gemini 4 Argon may be overkill for most tasks
  2. The Decoder ·
    OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Google's Gemini 4 Argon found critical PHP flaw affecting millions of websites
  3. The Decoder ·
    Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help
  4. The Decoder ·
    Google's Gemini 4 Argon is closer to the AI frontier than any Google model in months
  5. The Decoder ·
    Google wants Gemini 4 Argon to be the only AI model robots need
  6. Latent Space ·
    [AINews] AI Engineer NYC: Gemini 4 Argon, Vals AI Benchmarks
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Prices and specifications come from OpenRouter’s catalogue, last read 2 Nov 2026. A provider’s own price may differ; how this is collected.