Arena: Gemini 4 Argon (High) debuts #1 in Text Arena (1525)
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Summary
Arena (formerly LMArena) reports gemini-4-argon-high at #1 in Text Arena with 1525 points (+20 over #2) and #8 in Code Arena: WebDev with 1679, #1 in the Coding, Hard Prompts, Instruction Following, Longer Query and Creative Writing categories, and the most cost-efficient model on its price/score Pareto frontier. The leaderboard marks it as a pre-release model (4,942 votes).
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Big news: Gemini 4 Argon (High) by @GoogleDeepMind just landed #1 in Text Arena with 1525 pts, and #8 in Code Arena: WebDev with 1679 pts!
This release has reshaped the Text Arena Pareto frontier with a blended $8/MToken! Gemini 4 Argon (High) is now the most cost efficient model, see its placement on Pareto frontier below.
In the Text Arena, Gemini 4 Argon (High) ranks #1 in Coding, Hard Prompts, Instruction Following, Longer Query, and Creative Writing. It also leads every occupational domain evaluated, with additional #1 spots in English, Non-English, Chinese, and Russian.
This model is +20 points above the #2 ranked Claude Opus 4.6 (High), and a huge leap from Google’s previous release, Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) at #11!
In Code Arena: WebDev, Gemini 4 Argon (High) gained +96 points from Gemini 3.8 Flash (High), and went from #29 to #8.
Congrats to the @GoogleDeepMind team on this impressive frontier release!
