Comparing 2 models

Gemini 4 Argon vs GPT-6 Astra

Benchmarks through

Verdict

Gemini 4 Argon places higher on 9 of the 10 tasks where both are ranked. Gemini 4 Argon costs 5.0x less per input token. GPT-6 Astra accepts 1.0x more context.

  • Choose Gemini 4 Argon for Logic & Problem Solving (#1), Grounded RAG (#1), RAG & Long Context (#1).
  • Choose GPT-6 Astra for Frontend & UI (#6).

Built from the published task rankings below; ranks come from each task's own weighted benchmarks, so a win on one task says nothing about another.

metric
Model 1Gemini 4 Argon
Model 2GPT-6 Astra
Best for
a General Assistant (#1)
Grounded RAG (#2)
Provider
google
openai
Context
1.0M
1.1MBest
Input / 1M
$2Best
$10
Output / 1M
$10Best
$50
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
yesBest
Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
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Released
Sep 30, 2026
Sep 3, 2026

Measured head to head

Benchmarks both models were run on

EvaluationGemini 4 ArgonGPT-6 AstraSource
FACTS Grounding78.6%82%source · 2026-10-12
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)86% ± 2.193.7% ± 1.4source · 2026-10-13
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)96.4% ± 1.295.8% ± 1.4source · 2026-10-13
LMArena Agent13.713.7source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Bash Recovery-21.45.5source · 2026-10-08
LMArena Agent Steerability16.814.6source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Task Outcome14.612.5source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Tool Hallucination00.6source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Creative Writing1527 Elo1421 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Instruction Following1536 Elo1455 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Long Query1546 Elo1461 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Math1536 Elo1465 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text1524 Elo1477 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text Factuality1511 Elo1466 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena WebDev1678 Elo1780 Elosource · 2026-10-13
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)100% ± 0100% ± 0source · 2026-10-13
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)76% ± 1.475.6% ± 1.4source · 2026-10-13

Values are as published by each evaluator, in its own units; rows from different evaluators are not on a common scale.