Gemini 4 Argon batch pricing runs a quarter of Opus 5.5
The post compares Argon batch at $1/$5 per 1M tokens with Opus 5.5 standard at $4/$20 and walks through a 50M-in, 10M-out migration cost example.
holy f*ck google's flagship costs a quarter of opus for 34 more days argon in batch: $1 / $5 per 1M tokens until nov 30 opus 5.5 at standard: $4 / $20 on dec 1 argon batch doubles to $2 / $10 one migration, 50M tokens in, 10M out: → opus standard: $400 → argon standard: $200 → argon batch today: $100 → argon batch after dec 1: $200 and argon can write up to ~1M output tokens in one run say these 3 lines to claude code tonight: 1. "scan this repo and list the 3 biggest one-off jobs: ports, missing tests, stale docs" 2. "write a script that sends the first one to gemini-4-argon as batch jobs, file by file" 3. "show me every diff. nothing merges without my review" full playbook below. save it which job would you run first?
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