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| Attribute | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Previewgemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Input | $2.00 / 1M | $0.25 / 1M |
| Output | $10.00 / 1M | $1.50 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $2.00 / 1M | $0.25 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $2.00 / 1M | $0.25 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $2.00 / 1M | $0.25 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 1M | 1.0M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||
| Provider | ||
| Category | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — |
| Description | ||
| Summary | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model designed for high-volume and cost-sensitive workloads. It improves overall quality compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite while approaching the performance of Gemini 2.5 Flash across key capabilities. The model delivers enhancements in audio input/ASR, RAG snippet ranking, translation, data extraction, and code completion, and supports configurable thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high) for flexible cost–performance optimization. With pricing at roughly half the cost of Gemini 3 Flash, it is well suited for large-scale production deployments. |