Lighthouse Benchmark: Gemini Argon Runs 8x Cheaper Than Claude Opus
cgarciae88 · x · 2026-10-22
Account EnvolDev ran the "Lighthouse" benchmark comparing four frontier models (unverified) on the same prompt at XHigh Effort:
- Gemini 4 Argon: $6.30, 1h 47m 35s
- Claude Sonnet 5.5: $29.90, 2h 41m 44s
- Claude Opus 5.5: $53.57, 2h 44m
- GPT-6 Astra: $42.28, 2h 29m
The poster highlights Gemini's output quality at roughly 1/8 the cost of Claude Opus 5.5, and teases an upcoming DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash comparison.
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