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

Google Cloud announced that Gemini 4 Argon is now available, with a video showing 10 internal demos including legacy code migration and autonomous Android UI.

An Arabic-language report says Google launched Gemini 4 Argon worldwide, targeting multi-step coding, finance and cybersecurity tasks, with API pricing starting at $2 per million input tokens.

The author used a Gemini 4.0 Argon prompt with Seedance 2.5 to create a short film about a shrunken man hiding from home invaders, a size-themed demo.

A day after Gemini 4 Argon launched, Google says it helped clean up a 6-million-line section of Chromium and fixed a class of bugs that crashed Chrome, cutting months of work to weeks.

A user reposts fofrAI's work with a video demo, saying it was all generated by Gemini 4 Argon, without specifying the task type.

The same prompt for a 15-second stickman fight animation was run through native Gemini and through Argon in OpenCode, and the author asks which result people prefer.

A breakdown of Gemini 4 Argon access by plan: none on Free and AI Plus, app access plus API credits on AI Pro, and full access on Ultra, with older Flash and Pro models pulled from Antigravity.

The author notes Argon is only half the price of Opus until November 30 and lists tasks to move to Argon batch (code audits, writing tests, docs) versus what to keep on Claude (daily loops, explicit caching, live endpoints).

A post discusses Google's capability thresholds, saying a group of hype-side Google people kept claiming Argon has already reached threshold two, with threshold three being the Singularity.

Creatify's ad agent tool now runs on Gemini 4 Argon, supporting 3D product teardowns, playable mini games and 3D ad visuals.

The official googledevs account posted a thread rounding up community projects and experiments built with Gemini 4 Argon.

A short post complains that Gemini 4 Argon consumes quota extremely fast, using up the entire session usage limit in a single task.