Gemini 4 Argon (High) tops Text Arena at 1525 pts, becomes top cost-efficient frontier model at $8/MToken
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-10-05
LMArena announced that Google's Gemini 4 Argon (High) debuts at #1 on Text Arena with 1525 points and #8 in WebDev Code Arena (1679 pts).
Key facts:
- +20 points above #2 ranked Claude Opus 4.6 (High)
- Blended $8/MToken pricing reshapes the Text Arena Pareto frontier, making it the most cost-efficient frontier model
- #1 in Coding, Hard Prompts, Instruction Following, Longer Query, and Creative Writing, plus every occupational domain
- Also #1 in English, Non-English, Chinese, and Russian language buckets
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