Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model: Benchmarks, how to try it, and pricing

Google announced the public launch of Gemini 4 Argon after an earlier limited release to select testing partners.

It's the first model in the company’s Gemini 4 generation and now sits at the top of Google’s lineup.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the launch on X, where he said the model would be available globally starting today.

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Google first announced Argon on Sept.

30 in a blog post by Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu.

At that point, it was limited to trusted cyber defenders in Google’s Fairwind Program.

With today’s release, Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can use Argon in the Gemini app.

Google says Argon is built for long, complex work in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense.

For everyday chat, Google says the model gets to the point with less hedging, repeats itself less, and avoids clichés.

On longer tasks, it gives more frequent progress updates.

Argon 4 arrives during a busy fall season for frontier AI models.

Google repeatedly missed its own deadlines for the launch of Gemini 3.5 Pro , and meanwhile, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra .