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Why use Gemini 4 Argon on Vercel AI Gateway?
Vercel AI Gateway offers Gemini 4 Argon with pay-as-you-go pricing at $2.00/1M input tokens. Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more.
Compare Gemini 4 Argon across 4 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
Python + curlpip install openaiexport AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=...import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],google/gemini-4-argonRequest example
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="google/gemini-4-argon",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "google/gemini-4-argon", not the LLMReference slug "gemini-4-argon".
- creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
- The examples expect AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Compare Gemini 4 Argon Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studio | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| GCP Vertex AI | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| OpenRouter | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $2.00 | $10.00 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $2.00 |
| Output tokens | $10.00 |
| Image input | $1.00 |
| Video input | $1.00 |
Capabilities
About Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon is a Google DeepMind reasoning model, announced on September 30, 2026 for trusted cyber defenders and testers in Google's Fairwind Program and made generally available on October 13, 2026 through the Gemini API, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Google Antigravity and the Gemini app. Google built it for long-horizon software engineering, legal and finance work, cybersecurity defense and science. It takes text, image, video, audio and PDF input and returns text. Input and output share a 1,048,576-token limit; one synchronous request returns up to 65,536 output tokens, and long decodes extend output up to 1,048,576 tokens.