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Gemini 4 Argon vs GPT-6 Astra
2 of 5Language Models · verified 20 Oct 2026
Gemini 4 ArgonGooglecurrent
GPT-6 AstraOpenAIcurrent| Specification | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| Summary | First on one independent board, fifth on another, and cheap until December. | Saturates three of the benchmarks it reports, and ships disabled for enterprise. |
| Context | 1M | 1.05M |
| Input ($/Mtok) | $2 | $10 |
| Output ($/Mtok) | $10 | $50 |
| Licence | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Max output | 262K | 128K |
| Parameters | Not published | Not published |
| Released | 30 Sep 2026, GA 13 Oct | 3 Sep 2026 |
| Model ID | gemini-4-argon | gpt-6-astra |
| Category | Language Models | Language Models |
| Official | Google ↗ | — |
Highlighted rows are where these differ.
Gemini 4 Argon
- The price doubles to $4 and $20 on 1 December, and cached input is discounted 95%
- First of 41 on the Vals Index at 68.90%, but 52.6 on Artificial Analysis against 57.6 for Opus 5.5
- 77.9 on DeepSWE v1.1 in Google's table, and 55.0 on FrontierSWE v2 where GPT-6 Astra scores 65.5
Best for frontier work while the introductory rate lasts.
GPT-6 Astra
- 97.6% on FrontierMath Tier 4, 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 and 100% on ExploitBench
- Above 272K input tokens the whole request reprices: input and cache at 2x, output at 1.5x
- Rolls out to OpenAI's Daybreak cyber programme first, and arrives switched off for enterprise
Best for hard reasoning and computer use.