Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to everyone and undercuts the frontier on price
Google has taken Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model, to general release: it is now in the paid Gemini API via AI Studio, in Google Antigravity for AI Ultra subscribers, and in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search for AI Ultra and Pro users. The introductory price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, with cached input 95% off, rising to $4 and $20 after November 30. Google says Argon tops the Vals Index for finance, coding, legal and tax work and offers a 1M unified input-output token limit. The benchmark claims are Google's own, but the pricing is the real lever: developers now have a frontier-class option at a fraction of rival rates, at least until December. Google's announcement
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Meta and Google turn the frontier into a four-way race. Days before Argon, Meta unveiled Muse Wonder Full, which its own testing puts level with GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1 on many benchmarks. Together with Argon's aggressive pricing, it ends the sense that OpenAI and Anthropic had the top tier to themselves. The Verge
