Google announces Gemini 4 Argon rollout and pricing

Google said Gemini 4 Argon was its new frontier model and that it was starting to reach a small group of trusted cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program. It said wider availability would follow for developers, enterprises and consumers.

The company said it was taking a staged approach while it worked with the U.S. government’s voluntary pre-release model access process and collected feedback from early testers. It also said Argon would launch at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens priced at 95% less than standard input.

Google said Argon was already being used inside the company for coding, research, writing and other work. It claimed results including 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1, a leading position on the Vals Index, and a 91.7% score on LVBench.

On cybersecurity, Google said the model could find, check and patch vulnerabilities, and that it would be released without cyber guardrails to trusted defenders and internal teams. It said Wiz had used the model through its Scan for Good initiative and that an early test had found a serious flaw in healthcare software used by hospitals worldwide.

Google said it was also strengthening safeguards before broader release, including work on misuse detection, prompt-injection defences, misalignment monitoring and hardened sandboxing. It said those measures had been tested by internal and external red teams using manual and automated attacks.