Gemini 4 Argon's introductory API pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens expires on November 30, 2026, after which standard pricing of $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens applies.

● OPEN · settles 2026-12-01

Background

Two weeks after a limited release to vetted cyber defenders, Google's strongest model opens to everyone else. Gemini 4 Argon is now globally available to developers and enterprises through the Gemini API, and to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search and Antigravity. Google puts it first on the Vals Index, its measure of model performance across finance, coding, legal and tax work, and the launch stories are chosen to show range: the Chrome team used Argon to finish untangling a six-million-line legacy folder in weeks rather than months, and Apptronik's Apollo humanoid sank seven straight cornhole throws after Argon turned video of a human player into simulation code. The commercial terms are the sharpest part of the post. Argon launches at an introductory $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, with cached input 95% off, and Google states plainly that when the introductory period expires on November 30 the standard price doubles to $4 and $20. Google is also offering 10,000 scientists its highest Antigravity usage tier free for six months, expanding the Fairwind defender program to hundreds more partners, and reporting a safety stack under which external bio red-teamers unlocked less than 1% of tested sub-tasks while shortcut attempts by coding agents fell to 2%.

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How this claim is judged

Judging criteria, fixed when the market opened: Delivered if, at the check time, Google's October 13 announcement or its Gemini API pricing pages show that Argon's introductory pricing ended on November 30, 2026 and that standard pricing of $4 per 1M input tokens and $20 per 1M output tokens is in effect for the public-access Argon model. The introductory $2/$10 rate still being offered as the standard rate after November 30, or Argon having been withdrawn from the Gemini API, does not count.

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About this market

AI Rank Bank is an AI news front page with a memory. Every launch on the homepage carries one claim like this one, with a check date. Readers call claims with points, build a public record, and climb the leaderboard. Companies build a record too: every settled claim lands on the company's bank page, where its delivery rate is simple arithmetic that nobody gets to edit afterwards. There is no money in the market — points buy bragging rights only, which keeps the incentives pointed at being right.