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

A user reports that Gemini 4 Argon has a contributor tier with discounted pricing, though they rate it 2/10.

A video says Meta's Muse Wonder Full trails Claude Opus 5.5 by just two points on the Artificial Analysis Index and beats GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Argon.

A user jokes that Gemini 4 Argon's long silence may be because it was sent to the UK for a security review, and asks why a US model would answer to Britain.

A user notes that Gemini 4 Argon has been added to Google Cloud Platform, priced at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens.

cheatyyyy says Gemini 4 Argon has been officially added to Google's SKU pricing page at $2/$10 discounted and $4/$20 actual pricing, seen as a sign of an imminent global release.

Inspection of the Google Antigravity 2.23.0 client reveals gemini-4-argon model IDs in low, medium and high tiers, none of which appeared in version 2.22.0.

Meta's new flagship Muse Wonder scores 52 on Artificial Analysis, on par with GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Argon but behind Claude Opus 5.5.

The post says Logan has signaled that Gemini 4 Argon launches today, expected in 8-10 hours, around 8-11 PM local time, matching past Flash model launch windows.

A prompt asking for a realistic New York skyline drawn in JavaScript inside a single HTML file is used to show output attributed to Gemini 4 Argon.

A user marks Argon's launch day but says expectations are low, hoping only that it matches Gemini 3/3.1 Pro on world knowledge tasks.

The post guesses Gemini 4 launches tomorrow and claims Google's usual pattern is to route to a new Claude model first, then switch back two weeks later as the community cries downgrade.

The poster says Gemini 4 Argon is expected today and hopes Google won't restrict it to Ultra users, calling that disappointing given Google's compute capacity and the long wait.