Re:Gemini 4 Argon
by iamronaldo on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:08PM
(#49913627)
Argon will launch at an introductory price
of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens priced at 95% off input token price.
Wow
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Re:Gemini 4 Argon
by LucasBrandt on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:10PM
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5x cheaper than Astra for input and output, 10x cheaper for cached input.
watch it somehow use 20x more tokens tho
Google model really like reasoning a lot
More importantly, they can stuck at reasoning loop!
It's exact same price as Sol 6.1 announced yesterday.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon
by denysvitali on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:26PM
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> After the introductory period expires, the price of $4 per 1M input tokens and $20 per 1M output tokens will apply.
I have my doubts about them following through with this increase. I mean how many times has an increase on the same model happened.
There was Deepseek v4, which then later Deepseek v4.1 came out and it went back down again.
They will follow through with it, it's because they want to get the money of the people who embedded it into their system and lazy to change it.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon
by onlyrealcuzzo on Thursday October 01, 2026 @12:12AM
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It's an accounting trick.
They get to claim that as revenue, and then the discount as an expense.
This is how you grow your top line
Re:Gemini 4 Argon
by onlyrealcuzzo on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:00PM
(#49915058)
That's before they integrate a Jev solution, which should lower agentic workflow costs by ~40% and increase speeds by ~40%, while also increasing quality.
Everyone will be adding this soon, though I won't be surprised if Google is one of the first - and I'll be shocked if we have to wait more than a month and a half.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon
by asdfman123 on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:14PM
(#49915174)
Jev can fix it