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Gemini 4 Argon

Added Oct 13, 2026

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Google's Gemini 4 Argon is a flagship reasoning model for complex software engineering, mathematical and scientific problem solving, and multi-step agents. It accepts text, images, audio, video, and PDFs, with tool calling and structured outputs. Its 1,048,576-token context is shared across input, thinking, and output; synchronous output is capped at 65,536 tokens.

  • Reasoning
  • Tools
  • Vision
  • Structured output
  • PDF input
  • Audio input
  • Video input
Input
Text, Images, Video, Audio
Output
Text
Reasoning effort
low · medium · high
Discovery tier
Frontier

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens
Input
$2.00
Output
$10.00
Cache read
$0.10
Cache write
$0.19

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window
1M
Max output
65.5K
Average output (7 days)
1.6K tokens
Longer than 87% of 473 models

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Gemini 4 Argon compared

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Gemini 4 ArgonGoogleThis modelGemma 4 12B Starry OceanGoogleRemove
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Discovery tierFrontierOpen weights
AddedOct 13, 2026Oct 15, 2026
Limits
Context window1.05MBest131.07K
Max output65.54K—
Average output1.6K tokens233 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$2.00$0.05Best
Output$10.00$0.25Best
Cache read$0.10$0.025Best
Cache write$0.19—
Performance
Throughput113.7 tok/sBest18.3 tok/s
Time to first token10.0 s0.9 sBest
Request success (24h)98.5%99.3%Best
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index52.6—
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionYesYes
Structured outputYesNo
PDF inputYesNo
Audio inputYesNo
Video inputYesNo
Reasoning effortlow, medium, highnone, high

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • Gemini 4 Argon
  • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean

Intelligence Index

  • Gemini 4 Argon52.6
  • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean—

Gemini 4 Argon tested at high reasoning effort

Gemini 4 Argon: Better than 97% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • Gemini 4 Argon: 77.5%
    • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: —

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • Gemini 4 Argon: 53.1%
    • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: —

  • Harvey LAB-AAv1.1

    Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination

    • Gemini 4 Argon: 3.9%
    • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: —

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • Gemini 4 Argon: 1,486 Elo
    • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: —

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • Gemini 4 Argon: 1,624 Elo
    • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: —

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • Gemini 4 Argon: 21.8%
    • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: —

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Gemini 4 Argon: 79.7%
    • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: —

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • Gemini 4 Argon: 13.9%
    • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: —

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Gemini 4 Argon: 57.1%
    • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: —

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • Gemini 4 Argon: 57.1%
    • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: —

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • Gemini 4 Argon: 61.8%
    • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: —

Legacy evaluations

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Gemini 4 Argon: 79.7%
    • Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: —

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Gemini 4 Argon was tested at high reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis

Live routing data

Performance and reliability

Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.

Throughput
113.7 tok/s
Faster than 67% of 257 models
Time to first token
10.0 s
Quicker than 9% of 257 models
Prompt cache hits
40.9%
About $1.22 per 1M input tokens with caching
Request success (24h)
98.4%
Reliable

Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 94.1%
  • Healthy (98% or more)
  • Degraded (90–98%)
  • Down (under 90%)
  • No requests

Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "google/gemini-4-argon",
    "reasoning_effort": "medium",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="google/gemini-4-argon",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

Google

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