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Google gives trusted cyber defenders first access to Gemini 4 Argon

Google announced Gemini 4 Argon on September 30. Trusted cyber defenders get first access through Google's Fairwind program. Google says paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers will get broader access, but it has not said when.

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The model can produce up to one million tokens in one response. That number is an output limit. Google's introductory API prices are $2 for input and $10 for output per million tokens. The prices will rise to $4 and $20 after the introductory period.

Google supplied the performance and safety claims. The company says it is strengthening safeguards before a wider release, but it has not set a date. It also has not said when the introductory prices will end.

Once Google gives more people access, independent tests can measure Argon's performance and test its safeguards.

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