Gemini 4 Argon
A good performance / EU-hosting balance for a European company.
Overview
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon on 30 September 2026 as its new frontier model, built for coding, enterprise work and cyber defence. Rollout starts with a small group of cybersecurity partners and US public bodies through the Fairwind Program. Google says paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers will follow, without a precise schedule. According to Google, output can reach 1 million tokens. Performance figures are Google's own and have not been independently verified by nAIvigate. No price is shown here until the model is publicly available.
Skill profile
Not disclosed
Three independent measures
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Strengths
- Top-tier reasoning
- Strong French quality
- World-class on Arena
- Very long context
Limitations
- API pricing not disclosed
Who is it for
- you need advanced reasoning or analysis
- you work in French
- your data must stay in the EU
Access & availability
Key specifications
What it costs per month
Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.
Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.
nAIvigate Trust Index
What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.
8/20 criteria documented · 40 % · provisional: 50 % documented criteria or fewer
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[](https://naivigate.com/en/model/gemini-4-argon)Data & compliance
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| EU data residency | Not documented |
| Data processing agreement (DPA) | Not documented |
| Transfer outside the EU | Not documented |
| Training on your data | Not documented |
| Configurable retention | Not documented |
| Zero Data Retention | Not documented |
| Self-hostable | No |
| Declared hosting | US/EU |
Quality of this card’s data
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3/6 documented · 1/6 primary sources
Advanced data · for expertsArchitecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks▾
| Arena Elo | 1525 |
| MMLU | — |
| GPQA | — |
| HumanEval | — |
| SWE-Bench | — |
| MATH | — |