Google DeepMind

Gemini 4 Argon

Tool callingStructured outputReasoningImage inputAudio inputVideo inputFile input
Gemini 4 Argon launch post cover

Google DeepMind frontier model for complex, long-horizon software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense.

Context
1.0M
Released
2w ago
Input / 1M tokens
$2.00
Output / 1M tokens
$10.00
Cached input / 1M tokens
$0.10
Cache write / 1M tokens
$0.19

Sources:OpenRouter

Benchmarks

DeepSWE is the primary coding benchmark where an exact model evaluation exists. Other sourced evaluations appear below; missing scores are not zero.

Not evaluated in DeepSWE 1.1 as of 2026-09-22. Results are only shown for exact model versions in the official dataset. Official leaderboard.

Other published benchmarks

EvaluationReported score and source
GPQA diamond
96.4%
Epoch AI · gemini-4-argon_high
Reasoning effort: high
Epoch AI evaluation
SimpleQA Verified
76.0%
Epoch AI · gemini-4-argon_high
Reasoning effort: high
Epoch AI evaluation

Benchmark compilation: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (CC BY attribution). Scores are converted to percentages and model names matched to the Vertical Tabs catalog. Individual evaluations are credited to their original sources. External results may carry separate licences and evaluation configurations; do not interpret scores from different harnesses as directly comparable.

Specifications

Model family
Gemini
Predecessor
—
Successor
—
Released
September 30, 2026
Model ID
google/gemini-4-argon
Openness
Closed
License
—
Input modalities
audio, file, image, text, video
Output modalities
text
Modality
text+image+file+audio+video->text
Tokenizer
Gemini
Max output tokens
66K
Hugging Face
—
Source freshness
Metadata synced Oct 6, 2026, 11:01 PM UTC

Infrastructure

Provider availability

All providers
ProviderEndpointContextInput /M tokensOutput /M tokensCached input /M tokensCache write /M tokensUptime 1dData handling
Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/flex1.0M$1.00$5.00$0.05$0.09100.00%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/flexBatch pricing1.0M$1.00$5.00$0.05$0.09100.00%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Googlegoogle-vertex/global1.0M$2.00$10.00$0.10$0.1999.38%
ZDR: Yes

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Googlegoogle-vertex/globalBatch pricing1.0M$2.00$10.00$0.10$0.1999.24%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio1.0M$2.00$10.00$0.10$0.1999.58%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studioBatch pricing1.0M$2.00$10.00$0.10$0.1999.51%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Googlegoogle-vertex/us1.0M$2.20$11.00$0.11$0.19100.00%
ZDR: Yes

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Googlegoogle-vertex/usBatch pricing1.0M$2.20$11.00$0.11$0.19100.00%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Googlegoogle-vertex/global/priority1.0M$3.60$18.00$0.18$0.34100.00%
ZDR: Yes

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Googlegoogle-vertex/global/priorityBatch pricing1.0M$3.60$18.00$0.18$0.34100.00%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/priority1.0M$3.60$18.00$0.18$0.34100.00%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/priorityBatch pricing1.0M$3.60$18.00$0.18$0.34100.00%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Provider data:OpenRouter

Text provenance

Gemini app/web

Google SynthID text watermarking

Google DeepMind says text generated in the Gemini app and web experience is watermarked with SynthID by adjusting token probabilities.

Official explanation