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Gemini 4 Argonvs
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview
Gemini 4 Argon leads 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is 1.3x cheaper per token.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
3 – 0
Gemini 4 Argon leads
Cheaper per token
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview
1.3x cheaper, input + output
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Providers
2 providers
Google · Qwen
Gemini 4 Argon
Google · released 2026-09-30
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Qwen3.6-Max-Preview
Qwen · released 2026-04-18
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Quality
Benchmark matrix
3 shared · 9 only Gemini 4 Argon · 14 only Qwen3.6-Max-Preview| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Qwen3.6-Max-Preview | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 3 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1525.2 ↗ | 1460.3 ↗ | +64.9 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1679.5 ↗ | 1481.5 ↗ | +198 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 13718.16 ↗ | 4254.19 ↗ | +9464 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Only Gemini 4 Argon reports · 9 | ||||
| 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 | — | — |
| Only Qwen3.6-Max-Preview reports · 14 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | not reported | 87.4% ↗epoch run | — | — |
| Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 20% ↗epoch run | — | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 19% ↗epoch run | — | — |
| NL2Repo | not reported | 42.9% ↗ | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 91.1% ↗epoch run | — | — |
| QwenClawBench | not reported | 59% ↗ | — | — |
| SciCode | not reported | 47% ↗ | — | — |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | not reported | 63% ↗ | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 52% ↗epoch run | — | — |
| SkillsBench | not reported | 55.6% ↗ | — | — |
| SuperGPQA | not reported | 73.9% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | not reported | 57.3% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 76.7% ↗epoch run | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Terminus-2) | not reported | 65.4% ↗ | — | — |
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 Qwen3.6-Max-Preview 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 | Qwen3.6-Max-Preview | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | — | 256K tokens | — |
| Max output | 1M tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $1.3 ↗ | Qwen3.6-Max-Preview |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $7.8 ↗ | Qwen3.6-Max-Preview |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.1 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $12 | $9.1 | Qwen3.6-Max-Preview |
| Modalities | text · vision · video | text | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Released | 2026-09-30 | 2026-04-18 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 12 | 17 | — |
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