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Gemini 4 Argonvs
Mercury 2
Gemini 4 Argon leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Mercury 2 is 12x cheaper per token.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
Gemini 4 Argon leads
Cheaper per token
Mercury 2
12x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
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Providers
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Google · Inception
Gemini 4 Argon
Google · released 2026-09-30
textvisionvideo
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 10 only Gemini 4 Argon · 1 only Mercury 2| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Mercury 2 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1525.2 ↗ | 1343.3 ↗ | +181.9 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1679.5 ↗ | 1170 ↗ | +509.5 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Only Gemini 4 Argon reports · 10 | ||||
| APEX-Agents (Mercor) | 82.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AutomationBench | 51.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| CWE-bench v1 | 68% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 77.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs) | 55% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Agent (LMArena) | 0.0757 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LVBench | 91.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 53.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI) | 57.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 13718.16 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Mercury 2 reports · 1 | ||||
| WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) | not reported | 43.2% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Gemini 4 Argon minus Mercury 2 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Gemini 4 Argon | Mercury 2 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | — | 128K tokens | — |
| Max output | 1M tokens | 50K tokens | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $0.25 ↗ | Mercury 2 |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $0.75 ↗ | Mercury 2 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.1 ↗ | $0.025 ↗ | Mercury 2 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $12 | $1 | Mercury 2 |
| Modalities | text · vision · video | text | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Released | 2026-09-30 | 2026-02-24 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 12 | 3 | — |
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