Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, claiming frontier performance at lower per-token prices

Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, which it says delivers frontier reasoning and improved performance on complex workflows. Google claims Argon outperforms GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5.5 across several benchmarks.

It is rolling out to Pro and Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app and AI mode in Search, with an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, which doubles at the end of November.