- Status
- preview
- Released
- 2026-09-30
- Context
- Not disclosed
- Parameters
- Undisclosed
- Inputs
- Text · Image · Video
- Type
- multimodal
- Max output
- 1,000,000 tokens
- API model ID
- —
- Reasoning
- —
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Training cutoff
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- Weights / license
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- Price / 1M tokens
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- Cached input
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Gemini 4 Argon
Google's new frontier model, initially available to trusted cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program.
Independent benchmark scores
Coding
57%Terminal-Bench 4.0 in the Artificial Analysis evaluation harness.
Reasoning
57%Humanity's Last Exam as evaluated by Artificial Analysis; the source configuration is preserved.
Research
1611 EloGDPval-AA v2.1 professional knowledge-work Elo. This is a task lens, not an assessment of every research skill.
Multimodal
22%GDP.pdf professional document understanding, including visual tables, charts and diagrams; not an audio/video score.
Agentic
78%AutomationBench-AA multi-step business workflows in the Artificial Analysis harness.
Raw benchmark results
Source-backed rows with the original evaluation context preserved.
| Benchmark | Score | Source | Evaluation notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationBench-AAChecked 2026-10-02 | 78% | Artificial Analysis | Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2; configuration=high · restricted access. Rounded public score; checked date is not the evaluation execution date. |
| AA GDP.pdfChecked 2026-10-02 | 22% | Artificial Analysis | Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2; configuration=high · restricted access. Rounded public score; checked date is not the evaluation execution date. |
| GDPval-AA v2.1Checked 2026-10-02 | 1611 | Artificial Analysis | Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2; configuration=high · restricted access. Rounded public score; checked date is not the evaluation execution date. |
| AA Humanity's Last ExamChecked 2026-10-02 | 57% | Artificial Analysis | Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2; configuration=high · restricted access. Rounded public score; checked date is not the evaluation execution date. |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2Checked 2026-10-02 | 53 | Artificial Analysis | Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2; configuration=high · restricted access. Rounded public score; checked date is not the evaluation execution date. |
| AA Terminal-Bench 4.0Checked 2026-10-02 | 57% | Artificial Analysis | Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2; configuration=high · restricted access. Rounded public score; checked date is not the evaluation execution date. |
| AutomationBenchChecked 2026-10-02 | 51.3% | Google-reported Zapier AutomationBench; version and harness unspecified in announcement prose. | |
| CWE-bench v1Checked 2026-10-02 | 68% | Google-reported vulnerability remediation; CWE-bench v1, distinct from v0. | |
| DeepSWE v1.1Checked 2026-10-02 | 77.9% | Google-reported; long-horizon software engineering. Harness and effort are not specified in the announcement prose. | |
| LVBenchChecked 2026-10-02 | 91.7% | Google-reported long-video understanding score; video sampling and tool settings unspecified. |
Strengths
- Long software-engineering workflows
- Video understanding
- 1M-token maximum output
Limitations
- Restricted rollout; general developer and consumer access is not yet announced
- Public API pricing, model ID, and context window are unconfirmed; 1M is the output limit
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Google announcement; restricted Fairwind rollout. 1M tokens denotes maximum output, not a confirmed context window. Vendor-reported scores.
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2
Underlying raw metrics and exact model configurations remain authoritative.
Artificial Analysis methodology
Underlying raw metrics and exact model configurations remain authoritative.