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| Attribute | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon | Qwen 3 Max (0123)qwen3-max-2026-01-23 |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Input | $2.00 / 1M | $1.25 / 1M |
| Output | $10.00 / 1M | $5.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $2.00 / 1M | $1.25 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $2.00 / 1M | $1.25 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $2.00 / 1M | $1.25 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 1M | 262K |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||
| Provider | Alibaba | |
| Category | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — |
| Description | ||
| Summary | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. | Qwen3-Max-Thinking is Alibaba's latest flagship reasoning-enhanced large language model, evolving the Qwen3-Max architecture to emphasize deep, multi-step analytical reasoning and tool collaboration. It scales the model's capacity significantly—reportedly to over 1 trillion parameters—and integrates a “Thinking Mode” where the model can expose and leverage step-by-step reasoning traces before producing final answers, enabling more reliable solutions to complex problems such as advanced mathematics, logic, and multi-stage tasks. |