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Gemini 4 Argon vs Gemini Flash

Gemini 4 Argon is better at writing, coding, reasoning, maths; Gemini Flash is better at quick answers, long documents, translation. Gemini Flash is the cheaper of the two on output.

Measured quality by task

Quality is Nivana’s measured score for each kind of task, from weekly pairwise evals judged by models from several labs. Prices are live AI Gateway list prices per million tokens. Updated 2026-11-01. How this is measured.

Price and context

Which should you use?

Use the one that wins the kind of work you do most, unless the price gap outweighs the quality gap for easy requests. Or don’t choose: Nivana scores both, and the rest of the pool, on every request and sends it to whichever is best for that request.

Questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than Gemini Flash?

On Nivana’s weekly evals Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on 4 of 8 task types (writing, coding, reasoning, maths) and Gemini Flash on 3 (quick answers, long documents, translation). Neither is better at everything.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 4 Argon or Gemini Flash?

Gemini 4 Argon: 82/100 against 80/100 for Gemini Flash on Nivana’s coding evals.

Which is better for writing, Gemini 4 Argon or Gemini Flash?

Gemini 4 Argon: 82/100 against 81/100 for Gemini Flash on Nivana’s writing evals.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 4 Argon or Gemini Flash?

Gemini Flash: $3.75 per million output tokens against $10 for Gemini 4 Argon, about 2.7× less. A typical chat answer costs about $0.0037 on Gemini Flash and $0.010 on Gemini 4 Argon.