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

Hands-on tests show Gemini 4 Argon costs only ~1.57x 3.8 Flash at default thinking levels and is cheaper on short tasks, though December price hikes widen the gap.

The post complains that Google AI Plus subscribers are locked out of accessing Gemini 4 Argon.

The author fed two days of CGM glucose screenshots to Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-6.1 Terra, Opus 5.5 and two others; readings matched but reasoning, speed and cost diverged.

A developer used Gemini 4 Argon to improve vLLM code, lifting Gemma4 E2B throughput on A100 by almost 3x (up to 108k t/s) without hurting token consistency or quality.

The new AA Intelligence Index v5 suggests some open-source models were benchmaxxing, widening the gap with OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini Argon.

A video post mocks a comparison between Gemini 4 Argon Fable 5.1 and GPT 6.1 Terra, saying they'd rather pretend they didn't see it.

A creator reimagined a one-vs-six fight clip originally made with Seedance 2.5 into three cinematic parts using Gemini Argon.

On Cognition's new FrontierCode 2.0 coding benchmark, Gemini 4 Argon scores 26.3% for 11th place, below Claude Haiku 5.5's 27.7% and far behind Opus 5.5's 45.5% and GPT-6 Astra's 42.8%.

A rumor says Gemini 4 Flash runs at ~300 tok/s while matching Gemini 4 Argon quality, which the poster says would kill long reasoning waits if priced like Flash.

A user claims GPT-6.1 Terra beat Gemini 4 Argon on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and jokes that the AA team should get their eyes checked, hinting doubt about the ranking.

A post lists GPT-6.1 Sol, Opus 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon, Grok 4.7 and more, arguing the interesting question is what people build once model cost stops mattering.

A user reports Gemini 4 Argon is now accessible in Antigravity IDE for some accounts, and asks Google for quota resets and an early Gemini 4 Flash release.