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Gemini 4 Argon vs Grok 4.5

Compare Gemini 4 Argon from Google and Grok 4.5 from Grok on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Gemini 4 Argon
Google · text, image, video, audio, pdf → text

Gemini 4 Argon is Google DeepMind’s multimodal reasoning model for complex software engineering, financial research, legal drafting, and cybersecurity defense. It supports sustained reasoning across long, multi-step workflows, combining coding capabilities with chart and long-video understanding. It can also autonomously discover, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities.

Input$2 /M
Output$10 /M
Cache read$0.1 /M
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Grok 4.5
Grok · text, image → text

Grok 4.5 was trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math. With both intelligent and efficient reasoning, Grok 4.5 excels at real engineering tasks and exceeds comparable leading models at these tasks.

Input$2 /M
Output$6 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Gemini 4 Argon
Grok 4.5
Input /M
$2
$2
Output /M
$10
$6
Cache read /M
$0.1
$0.5
Context length
1,048,576
500,000
Max output
65,536
500,000
Time to First Token
12.7 s
1.6 s
Throughput
42.3 tok/s
17.5 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideoaudiopdf
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
API Formats
Released
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July 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
gemini-4-argongrok-4.5
144014801520
Overall
14661524
WebDev Arena
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1520158016401700
Overall
15531678

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Grok 4.5
$210 /mo
Gemini 4 Argon
$270 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Gemini 4 Argon, Grok 4.5?

Grok 4.5: $6/M output tokens; Gemini 4 Argon: $10/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Grok 4.5: 1.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Gemini 4 Argon accepts 1,048,576 and Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on Gemini 4 Argon and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Gemini 4 Argon at 42.3 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 17.5 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Gemini 4 Argon accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input; Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.

Can I call Gemini 4 Argon and Grok 4.5 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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