Google 向付费用户开放 Gemini 4 Argon，登顶 Vals AI 专业任务榜
Google 把内测的 Gemini 4 Argon 开放了，专业任务榜上分数超过了 Claude 两个型号，单次测试还便宜一半，做长任务的可以看看价格变化节点。
Google 于 9 月 30 日发布的 Gemini 4 Argon 此前仅限 Google 内部、美国政府、网络安全人员等使用，现已开放给付费客户。模型支持 100 万 token 输出上下文窗口，API 介绍价为每 100 万 token 输入 2 美元、输出 10 美元，11 月 30 日后涨至 4 美元和 20 美元。在 Vals AI 按 GDP 权重覆盖金融、编程、法律、税务任务的专业指数中，Argon 得分 68.90%，高于 Claude Sonnet 5.5 的 67.04% 和 Claude Opus 5.5 的 66.97%。单次测试平均耗时不到 47 分钟、成本 15.68 美元，低于 Sonnet 5.5 的 1 小时 18 分钟和 21.34 美元，其成本优势来自输入 token 用量不到 Opus 5.5 的一半。
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.
