Which model is better: Claude 4 Opus or Gemini 4 Argon?
Gemini 4 Argon is 86.7% cheaper for input tokens ($2.00 vs. $15.00 per 1M tokens) and $10.00 vs. $75.00 for output tokens (7.5x cost advantage). In terms of operational performance, Gemini 4 Argon delivers lower response latency at 850ms TTFT (70ms faster than Claude 4 Opus) with 115 vs. 46 tok/s throughput. Gemini 4 Argon leads coding evaluations at 84.5% SWE-bench Verified vs. 77.2% for Claude 4 Opus and 93.8% vs. 87.1% on GPQA Diamond.
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Verified Performance & Unit Economics Delta (12 Dimensions)
Daily synchronized metrics across token pricing, prompt cache economics, latency, throughput, and 5 capability benchmarks.
Metric / Dimension
Claude 4 Opus
Gemini 4 Argon
Net Delta / Advantage
Input Cost / 1M Tokens
$15.00
$2.00
Gemini 4 Argon is 7.5x cheaper
Output Cost / 1M Tokens
$75.00
$10.00
Gemini 4 Argon (86.7% lower)
Prompt Cache Read / 1M
$1.500
$0.100
Gemini 4 Argon is 15.0x cheaper
Prompt Cache Write / 1M
$18.75
$0.50
Gemini 4 Argon is 37.5x cheaper
Context Window (Max Output)
205k (64k out)
1,024k (1000k out)
Gemini 4 Argon (5.0x larger context)
Avg TTFT Response Latency
920ms
850ms
Gemini 4 Argon (70ms faster)
Generation Speed (Throughput)
46 tok/s
115 tok/s
Gemini 4 Argon (+69 tok/s faster)
SWE-bench Verified (Coding)
77.2%
84.5%
Gemini 4 Argon (+7.3% lead)
GPQA Diamond (PhD STEM)
87.1%
93.8%
Gemini 4 Argon (+6.7% lead)
MMLU-Pro (Multi-Discipline)
91.8%
91.4%
Claude 4 Opus (+0.4% lead)
MATH-500 (Quantitative Logic)
98.1%
98.2%
Gemini 4 Argon (+0.1% lead)
Inference Value Score (IVR)
43.6 / 100
62.6 / 100
Gemini 4 Argon (+19 pts)
Interactive Monthly Token Economics & ROI Forecaster
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Choose Gemini 4 Argon (Google) for engineered with a 1M output token limit for long-horizon software engineering, cybersecurity vulnerability remediation, and deep multimodal enterprise work across legal and financial domains — offering a 1,024k context window, 850ms TTFT, and $2.00/1M input pricing ($0.100/1M cached reads).
Which is cheaper: Claude 4 Opus or Gemini 4 Argon?
Gemini 4 Argon is cheaper at $2.00/1M input tokens ($10.00/1M output) compared to $15.00/1M input ($75.00/1M output) for Claude 4 Opus.
Which model has lower TTFT latency and higher tok/s throughput: Claude 4 Opus or Gemini 4 Argon?
Gemini 4 Argon delivers faster first-token latency at 850ms TTFT (115 tok/s throughput) compared to 920ms TTFT (46 tok/s) for Claude 4 Opus.
How do Claude 4 Opus and Gemini 4 Argon compare on SWE-bench coding and GPQA Diamond reasoning?
On SWE-bench Verified software engineering, Claude 4 Opus scores 77.2% versus 84.5% for Gemini 4 Argon. On GPQA Diamond graduate-level STEM reasoning, Claude 4 Opus scores 87.1% versus 93.8% for Gemini 4 Argon (and 98.1% vs 98.2% on MATH-500).
When should you choose Claude 4 Opus?
Choose Claude 4 Opus (Anthropic) for mission-critical R&D, long-horizon autonomous coding tasks, complex theorem proving, and executive strategic synthesis — offering a 204k context window, 920ms TTFT, and $15.00/1M input pricing ($1.500/1M cached reads).
When should you choose Gemini 4 Argon?
Choose Gemini 4 Argon (Google) for engineered with a 1M output token limit for long-horizon software engineering, cybersecurity vulnerability remediation, and deep multimodal enterprise work across legal and financial domains — offering a 1,024k context window, 850ms TTFT, and $2.00/1M input pricing ($0.100/1M cached reads).
