Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon
Top of the human-preference leaderboard, and almost nobody can use it yet.
Updated
The read
Gemini 4 Argon is Google's new flagship, announced on 30 September and first on the arena leaderboard, though that rating is still marked preliminary. Google says it leads on real-world coding and enterprise automation. Access is rolling out to cyber-defence partners first, with paid API customers promised it as soon as possible, so it is listed here on the strength of independent results rather than anything you can build on today. The announced introductory price is aggressive for a model at this level.
Where it shines
- First on the arena leaderboard as of 8 October
- Leads Google's published coding and automation benchmarks
- An introductory price of two dollars in and ten out is low for this tier
Worth knowing first
- Not generally available: access is limited to Google's partner programme so far
- Its arena rating is still preliminary
Index score
90.6
Provisional. This score is read from the product's public capability, not from the one-prompt rebuild the fully reviewed entries went through, so treat it as a placing rather than a verdict.
- Rank
- 03 of 73
- Builds
- LLMs
- Category
- Frontier
- Output
- Text, code and images in, text out
- Pricing
- Paid only
- Best for
- Coding and enterprise work, once Google opens access
Scores are our own editorial judgement, weighted craft 55, speed 10, control 15 and value 20.
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