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| Attribute | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon | Qwen3 VL 8B Instructqwen3-vl-8b-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Input | $2.00 / 1M | $0.09 / 1M |
| Output | $10.00 / 1M | $0.345 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $2.00 / 1M | $0.09 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $2.00 / 1M | $0.09 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $2.00 / 1M | $0.09 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 1M | 262.1K |
| 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-VL-8B-Instruct is a multimodal model for precise reasoning across text, images, and video. With improved fusion architectures (Interleaved-MRoPE, DeepStack, and text-timestamp alignment), it supports long-context understanding up to 1M tokens and handles tasks like document parsing, VQA, spatial reasoning, and GUI control. It delivers LLM-level text comprehension, stronger OCR across 32 languages, and robust performance across diverse visual conditions. |