Gemini 4 Pro / Flash: benchmarks, hands-on tests and leaks

An Arabic post claims Gemini 4 Argon is 7x faster and 4x cheaper than Opus 5.5 with stable performance, while Opus still wins heavy workloads.

A reply notes that Gemini with Argon produces very good infographics.

A video post says Gemini 4 Argon is coming for GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus on major benchmarks as model competition heats up.

A tester claims Gemini 4 Carbon-b and Carbon-c are slightly faster but worse at coding than Argon and far behind Opus 5.5, disputing Business Insider coverage.

A weekly tech roundup lists Meta Muse Spark Open, Google's Gemini 4 Argon launch, Tesla's rocket-powered Roadster, and Microsoft's Maia 300 chip.

Argon is offered via AI Studio's Interactions API, the paid Gemini API tier and Antigravity, demoing a robot video turned into a MuJoCo sim for a cornhole task.

A single prompt gets Gemini 4 Argon to produce a playable Three.js and GLSL flying Tesla Roadster game in one HTML file with no external assets; prompt and code included.

Averaged over three runs, Muse Wonder leads at 42 and Opus 5.5 follows at 41.7, with Gemini 4 Argon (high) at 40.7 in third; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash varies widely.

A video comparison says Claude Opus 5.5 took 3 hours and $46.59 to grow a Halloween pumpkin, while Gemini 4 Argon did it in one prompt for 24 cents, roughly a 200x cost gap.

A weekly recap says Gemini 4 Argon can work on a task overnight and have results ready in the morning, alongside Anthropic revenue and IPO news.

A user says Gemini 4 Argon writes natural Chinese without clichés or overwrought metaphors, generates more natural images than image 2.0, and is notably cheap.

A post says Gemini 4 Argon is now available to Pro subscribers, without further details.