Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemini 4 Argon: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 4 Argon both come from Google, Gemini 3.6 Flash was released in July 2026, and Gemini 4 Argon followed 2 months later in September 2026.
We have 7 benchmark results for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 19 benchmark results for Gemini 4 Argon, but they overlap on a single test: DeepSWE 1.1, where Gemini 4 Argon scores 77.9% against 49.0%.
Gemini 3.6 Flash is available through an API at $1.50 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Gemini 4 Argon, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| Company | ||
| Release Date | July 21, 2026 | September 30, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | — |
| Context (output) | 66K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.50 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $7.50 | — |
| Average Score | 68.0% | 67.3% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 49.0% | 77.9% |
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Verdict
Gemini 4 Argon leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3.6 Flash — 0.7, Gemini 4 Argon — 0.7.
Gemini 4 Argon is newer: released 9/30/2026 vs 7/21/2026.
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