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

A developer jokes that Gemini 4 Argon fumbled and shifts hype to the next Gemini 4 model, codenamed Carbon.

After updating Antigravity, users can select Gemini 4 Argon High marked "New" in the model list; those who don't see it should update the IDE.

A creator recreated a Seedance 2.5 fantasy baby-dragon video with Gemini Argon as a side-by-side video generation demo.

A leak says Gemini 4 Flash hits close to 300 tokens per second; if it matches Argon-level performance at Flash pricing it would be hard to beat, and the poster plans to test it on Arena.

According to Lyra, the fast Gemini 4 on Arena is the Flash variant at around 300 tps; it isn't released yet but may hit Arena soon.

The poster notes DeepSeek runs around 400 tokens/s and MiniMax M3.1 Flash near 1000 tps, so the real question is whether Gemini 4 Flash can outperform both on actual quality.

The author speculates Gemini 4 Flash will be extremely fast, stay cheap, focus on computer use and agentic tasks, or be scrapped in favor of another Argon version.

On a 100-task benchmark spanning 55 microscope slides and 7 tumor types, Gemini 4 Argon ranks first with 32% pass@1.

ZenMux's Halloween promo lets users who spend $1 in cash PAYG daily open a model blind box; the 16-model pool includes 5M Gemini 4 Argon tokens, with rewards up to $500.

A brief reaction claiming Gemini 4 Flash is genuinely fast, without concrete numbers or test details.

A user reports Gemini 4 Flash generating at roughly 300 tokens per second, warning that an unusually fast model on LMArena is likely it.

A user reports fresh chatter that Gemini 4 Flash carries the codename Hydrogen, and jokes about Google's usual wait before access.