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

A promo post says Freebuff gives free access to multiple models including Gemini 4 Argon with no credit card or top-up, ad-supported with rate limits.

Induction Labs adds Gemini 4 Argon, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and MiniMax M3.1 Flash to its leaderboard; Argon matches GPT-6.1 Sol but sits behind the frontier.

On the 226-problem ErdosBench, DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 ranks 6th, tying Gemini 4 Argon and Muse Wonder at a fraction of the cost.

A Japanese user's roundup of the current model landscape says Gemini 4 Argon has shipped, leads on writing and video/audio input, but is rarely used for coding.

A post highlights the pricing spread across Opus 5.5 at $20, Gemini 4 Argon at $10 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at $1.20, asking which model people default to.

A Japanese user contrasts Gemini Argon's clever answer with Qwen3.8Max pointing out contradictions and DeepSeek Flash seeming rational but failure-prone, concluding the latter two are more usable.

A roundup claims Kimi K3.1 Pro, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, Muse wonder and Gemini 4 Argon all flopped, leaving DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 as the only model people praise while using.

A joke thread has DeepSeek V4.1 write code, Gemini 4 Argon flag two issues, GPT-6 Astra dispute Argon's review, Opus 5.5 side with Astra and jab Argon, ending with Argon apologizing.

The poster lists recent Chinese model releases from DeepSeek, MiniMax and Kimi while noting Gemini 4 Flash and other US models are still awaited.

A ModelCompare experiment found 29 of 35 answers nearly identical, with Gemini 4 Argon likening human consciousness to a PR department that only spins decisions after the fact.

An infographic lists 71 companies training their own models, noting Gemini 4 Argon holds #1 on LMArena's text leaderboard on a preliminary score, alongside xAI's rename and DeepSeek's OpenRouter share.

The author believes Gemini 4 Flash is near release and wants to compare it with the newly updated DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on speed, capability and price balance.