Google's cheaper Gemini 4 Hydrogen scores 51, edging out its own flagship Argon
heyshrutimishra · x · 2026-11-13
Per Google's numbers, the cheaper Gemini 4 Hydrogen scores 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — above Google's own flagship Gemini 4 Argon at 50, and 54 on the new xhigh thinking setting. Pricing: Hydrogen is $1.50/$7.50 per million input/output tokens; Argon is $2/$10 now, rising to $4/$20 after Nov 30. Google says Hydrogen finishes tasks 2.5x faster than Gemini 3.8 Flash with 5x fewer fabricated claims; Terminal-Bench 4.1: 57% vs Flash's 18.2%. The score-vs-time chart shows Hydrogen leading Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Terra at equal task time.
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