Gemini 4 Argon vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Half the price, half as accurate
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon beat Claude Opus 5.5 on 14 of 18 benchmarks at launch, including DeepSWE (77.9% vs. 74.2%) and GraphWalks at 256K–1M tokens (84.2% vs. 66.8%). Two weeks later, independent testing found Argon roughly half as accurate at about half the price.
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