Gemini 4 Argon pricing: API and Gemini plans
Gemini 4 Argon costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, with a 1.05M context window. In Gemini, the cheapest plan with it is Google AI Pro at $19.99/mo.
US dollars per million tokens, standard rate, shortest context band. Plan prices read 20 October 2026.
- 1,000 support replies
- $10.00
- Cached input
- $0.10
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Released
- 13 Oct 2026
- Weights
- Closed weights
From Google’s own pages, 15 October 2026.
Gemini 4 Argon costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens on Google’s own API, and $0.10 for cached input. At those prices 1,000 support replies cost $10.00, the 16th most expensive of 42 priced models on our list.
In Gemini: Gemini 4 Argon is included in Google AI Pro ($19.99/mo), Google AI Ultra 5x ($99.99/mo), Google AI Ultra 20x ($199.99/mo).
gemini.google/us/subscriptions/ · Read 20 October 2026. Prices can differ by country and include or exclude tax depending on the country.
What a job costs
Three jobs, 1,000 runs of each, at the list price above, and where each puts Gemini 4 Argon among the 42 models with a list price.
| Job | 1,000 runs | Among 42 |
|---|---|---|
| Support reply3,000 in, 400 out. | $10.00 | 16th most expensive |
| Document summary25,000 in, 1,000 out. | $60.00 | 16th most expensive |
| Agent task80,000 in (70,000 cached), 3,000 out. | $57.00 | 18th most expensive |
The token counts are ours, chosen to look like real work; the prices are Google’s. All three jobs stay under 100,000 tokens a request, below every long-context surcharge on the list.
The small print
What the base rate above leaves out, copied from the maker’s pages: surcharges, discounts, promotions and cache pricing.
Launch price through 2026-11-30; from 2026-12-01 it becomes $4 / $20, cached $0.20. Output includes thinking tokens. Implicit caching only. No long-context premium. Batch and Flex 50% off; Priority $3.60 / $18. Not on the Free tier.
Gemini 4 Argon against the models it is weighed with
Each comparison puts both list prices side by side and costs the same three jobs on each.
- vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Google's new flagship against Anthropic's, with Argon at half the Opus price until December, when the two match.
- vs GPT-6 Astra
- Google's and OpenAI's newest flagships, with Argon at a fifth of the Astra input price at launch.
- vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- The new Gemini flagship against the 3.1 Pro it replaces, at the same $2 input until Argon doubles in December.
- vs GPT-6.1 Sol
- Google's new flagship against OpenAI's workhorse Sol, at the same $2 / $10 list price until December.
- vs Grok 4.7
- Google's and xAI's flagships at the same $2 input, with Grok cheaper on output and Argon reading twice the context.
- vs Muse Wonder
- The two flagships released the same week, both with 1M context, with Wonder twice the Argon launch price.
Other Google models
| Model | Input | Output | Context | 1,000 replies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteGoogle | $0.25 | $1.50 | 1.05M | $1.35 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle | $0.30 | $2.50 | 1.05M | $1.90 |
| Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | $0.75 | $3.75 | 1.05M | $3.75 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)GoogleNewer model: Gemini 4 Argon | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.05M | $10.80 |
Where the price comes from
Read on 15 October 2026. Each price is the standard rate for the shortest context band, with no batch or priority discount; long-context surcharges, batch rates and promotions are in each model’s small print. No price was taken from a reseller.
Compare Gemini 4 Argon with 45 other models
The price list sets every model’s input and output price side by side, with what a support reply, a document summary and an agent task cost on each.
Prices checked 15 October 2026 · See them by release date