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Gemini 4 Argon
Work directly with multiple media types and compare the limits for long responses.
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Audio, video & long-form work
The API accepts audio and video directly, alongside text and images. This can avoid separate transcription and frame-extraction steps.
The tradeoff
Input and output consume the same token budget. Long decode is a separate mode; the default output limit is lower.
Task guidance follows the documented capabilities. It is not an independent benchmark result.
At a glance
- Inputs
- Text, images, video, audio, PDF
- Context budget
- 1,048,576 tokens · shared input + output
- Maximum output
- 65,536 tokens default; up to 1,048,576 tokens with long decode
- Reasoning
- low, medium, high
- API access
- Paid Gemini API; unavailable on the free tier
Standard API pricing
$2 input / $10 output
USD per million tokens · Sources checked Nov 2, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC
Standard paid API rates; output includes thinking tokens. Caching, batch, service tiers and grounding have separate rates. Every processed token is billed, including internal tool system instructions and function declarations when grounding. Google Search grounding is billed per individual search query. From 2026-12-01: $4 input / $20 output per million tokens (UTC). Rates follow the published schedule. Chat subscription prices are separate.
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Task guidance follows documented capabilities. No cross-lab performance ranking. API limits and prices differ from chat subscriptions. Open a profile for the official sources and pricing conditions.