Google's Paige Bailey touts Gemini 4 Argon at $0.23 vs $33.45 for agentic task

Paige Bailey, Google's Gemini lead, says Gemini 4 Argon completed a multi-step agentic task for $0.23, against $33.45 for an unnamed comparison model, which she puts at about 145 times cheaper.

In a post on X, she says the goal is to give builders frontier capabilities at a price that lets them scale. The figures come from her post alone; no benchmark, task definition, or pricing documentation accompanies them in the reports, and the comparison model is not identified.