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Gemini 4 Argon Pricing

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Input / 1M tokens

$2.00

Output / 1M tokens

$10.00

Context window

1,048,576 tokens

≈ 1,398 pages of text

Max output

65,536 tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0064

1,000 requests / month$6.40/mo 10,000 requests / month$64.00/mo 100,000 requests / month$640.00/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Gemini 4 Argon preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

Only one price point recorded so far.

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What it excels at

Excels at long-context multimodal tasks including document analysis, code, and audio processing with native support for 1M-token inputs.

The business tradeoff

Output pricing at $10 per million tokens raises costs for generation-heavy use; API availability and rate limits vary by region and Google Cloud tier.

Cheaper from Google

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)Google$0.0036/ typical request Nano Banana 2.1Google$0.0048/ typical request Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle$0.0002/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

Claude Fable 5Anthropic$0.032/ typical request Qwen3.7 PlusQwen$0.0009/ typical request Grok 4.3xAI$0.0025/ typical request

Head-to-head

Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Fable 5 →Gemini 4 Argon vs Qwen3.7 Plus →Gemini 4 Argon vs Grok 4.3 →

Vendor list rates, as of Oct 13, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.