Google releases Gemini 4 Argon for paying users
Access depends on subscription tier, and the introductory API pricing ends in November.
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The short version
- Google launched Gemini 4 Argon today for developers and enterprises through the API, and for paying subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search.
- The introductory price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, and it doubles at the end of November.
- Google says Argon ranks first on the Vals Index and scores 87% on the ERQA embodied reasoning benchmark.
- According to The Verge, Argon is Google's first major frontier release since Gemini 3 in late 2025.
Why it matters
The launch puts Google back in the frontier race against GPT-6 Astra and Claude models, which Google says Argon outperforms on several benchmarks. For developers, access is gated by subscription tier, and Antigravity is limited to Ultra subscribers, so plans should account for that before building on the model.
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What people are saying
Hacker News commenters, on a thread with 422 points, reported that Argon was not yet available in their organizations, including one in the EU. Others said Pro and Ultra subscribers already had access, and one said Gemini 3.8 had been falling behind other models in their experience.