Google priced Gemini 4 Argon at $2 and $10 per million input and output tokens, then released it first to trusted cyber defenders in its Fairwind Program. Teams can budget against those rates now but cannot yet measure the token counts they multiply.
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon tied GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 at 53 on the Artificial Analysis index, though some Google staff say its coding lags. Google disputes them, and until paid API access has a date, buyers cannot check the score on their own code.
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Google graded its own Gemini 4 Argon at 77.9% on the DeepSWE coding test, 3.7 points above Claude Opus 5.5's leaderboard score. When paying API customers get the model, they will pay half Google's list price for a period the company has not set.
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Google will give vetted defenders and its own teams a Gemini 4 Argon build with no cyber guardrails, saying the model finds and patches critical flaws unaided. Wiz is the first named outside user, and the bug-finding evidence published so far comes from Google's own internal tests.
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Google is limiting its Gemini 4 Argon frontier model to a set of trusted cyber defenders while the US government gets pre-release access. Software and legal teams drawn in by the benchmark chart should plan on the models they run today until Google widens access.
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon lifts its output limit to 1M tokens from 64K, aimed at agent jobs that finish in one pass. The higher ceiling raises both the most a single run can bill and the amount of output someone has to review before it ships.
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