Google向付费客户开放Gemini 4 Argon，其在Vals AI专业工作指数上领先Claude

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Google已向付费客户开放Gemini 4 Argon，自9月30日亮相以来它此前仅限Google团队、美国政府、经审查的网络防御者和早期访问伙伴使用。Argon具备1M token输出上下文窗口，引入期API价格为$2/$10每1M输入/输出token，11月30日后涨至$4和$20；Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview输出上限为64K tokens。

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原文给出了Argon在专业工作榜单上的得分与单测成本对比，读者可据此判断其相对Claude的性价比优势是否可持续。

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Google opened Gemini 4 Argon to paying customers, and it already leads Vals AI’s index of professional work.

Since its September 30 unveiling, Argon had been limited to Google teams, the US government, vetted cyber defenders and early-access partners.

One of its big deal is the 1 mn token output context window.

Its introductory API price of $2/$10 per 1M input/output tokens doubles to $4 and $20 after November 30.

Google ties Argon’s longer runs to a 1M-token budget shared by input and output, while Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview capped output at 64K tokens.

Vals AI’s index weights agentic finance, coding, legal and tax tasks by each sector’s share of US GDP, using 6 private benchmarks and 2 public ones.

Argon scored 68.90% there, ahead of Claude Sonnet 5.5 at 67.04% and Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.97%.

It also ran faster and cheaper, averaging under 47 minutes and $15.68 per test against 1 hour 18 minutes and $21.34 for Sonnet 5.5.

Vals priced Argon at the $4 and $20 standard rate Opus 5.5 also charges, yet Opus cost $32.14 per test.

Argon’s cost edge therefore comes from using fewer than half Opus’s input tokens, so it should survive the end of the discount.