Trinity Large Thinking vs Gemini 4 Argon
Updated October 21, 2026. 36 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
vs boards won of 36 shared
Decision reading
Pick Gemini 4 Argon for coding: it scores 80.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 5.4 for Trinity Large Thinking.
Pick Trinity Large Thinking when output tokens cost 12.5x less.
Model ATrinity Large ThinkingArcee AI5.4/1001 independent benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BGemini 4 ArgonGoogle80.5/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 36
- Trinity Large Thinking only
- 16
- Gemini 4 Argon only
- 56
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon scores 80.5 against 5.4.
1 and 2 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon leads, 52.6 against 10.8.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Trinity Large Thinking has a AA Agentic Index result, 1.0.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon leads, 1315 against 1137.
Same board, both measured
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Gemini 4 Argon has a Vals Index result, 69.2%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon takes 1.05M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Trinity Large Thinking
Trinity Large Thinking $0.0006, Gemini 4 Argon $0.0070 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Trinity Large Thinking 5.4 from 1 benchmark, Gemini 4 Argon 80.5 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 44.9 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LMArena WebDev: Trinity Large Thinking 1238 against Gemini 4 Argon 1678, 62.9 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Trinity Large Thinking $0.80 against Gemini 4 Argon $10.00 per million output tokens, 12.5x apart.
- Context window
- Trinity Large Thinking takes 262K tokens, Gemini 4 Argon 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Trinity Large Thinking | Bars | Gemini 4 Argon | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 6 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 4 | ||
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 4 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 6 | ||
| General | 0 | 13 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 36 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index06
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Gemini 4 Argon | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 89.7% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1238 | 1678 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| AA Coding Index | 25.8 | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 57.6% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 91.9% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.2% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 2.5% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 100.0% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 57.7% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | Not measured | 56.0% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 21.2% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 77.9% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SciCode | 40.6% | 61.8% | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 22.7% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| FrontierCode | Not measured | 47.5% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| FrontierSWE | Not measured | 55.0% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 2100.1 | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1357 | 1546 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1362 | 1556 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1231 | 1692 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1240 | 1643 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Gemini 4 Argon | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 10.8 | 52.6 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 166.4 | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Gemini 4 Argon | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 1.0 | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | Not measured | 1151 | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 83.1% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 92.0% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 69.9% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 44.3% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 65.4% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 44.6% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 54.8% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 27.1% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 75.2% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 76.3% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | Not measured | 44.3% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Vals Science Index | Not measured | 55.4% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | Not measured | 52.5% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| CUA-bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 4.8% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Robo-bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.8% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 90.1% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| APEX-Agents | Not measured | 82.4% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $13,718 | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Gemini 4 Argon | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 95.1% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 45.5% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 75.2% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 15.8% | 57.1% | Gemini 4 Argon |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 96.4% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 98.5% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 91.3% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 59.0% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 64.0% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| EBR-bench | Not measured | 64.8% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1342 | 1546 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1359 | 1550 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1356 | 1548 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Gemini 4 Argon | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 100.0% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 86.0% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 78.0% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 99.0% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1365 | 1536 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1350 | 1557 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Gemini 4 Argon | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 88.3% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 57.9% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 54.7% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 58.8% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 76.0% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1355 | 1548 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1349 | 1555 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1345 | 1548 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1329 | 1525 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index06
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Gemini 4 Argon | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1137 | 1315 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1045 | 1333 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1079 | 1377 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1098 | 1334 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1082 | 1389 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1117 | 1328 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1016 | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1041 | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 73.7% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index013
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Gemini 4 Argon | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 69.2% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 85.2% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 69.8% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 53.6% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 87.4% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| IFBench | 56.3% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 38.0% | 79.7% | Gemini 4 Argon |
| DTBench | Not measured | 97.6% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 63.7% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 15.6% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| Furniture assembly | Not measured | 72.5% | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text | 1340 | 1532 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1326 | 1534 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1308 | 1527 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: English | 1356 | 1538 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1325 | 1522 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1371 | 1611 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: German | 1356 | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1312 | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1306 | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1366 | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1327 | 1503 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1338 | 1534 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1312 | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1320 | 1556 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1318 | 1547 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1317 | 1529 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1296 | 1527 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Gemini 4 Argon | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Trinity Large Thinking$0.0006Fits in one request
Gemini 4 Argon$0.0070Fits in one request
Trinity Large Thinking costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Trinity Large Thinking$0.015Fits in one request
Gemini 4 Argon$0.130Fits in one request
Trinity Large Thinking costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Trinity Large Thinking$0.058Fits in one request
Gemini 4 Argon$0.500Fits in one request
Trinity Large Thinking costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Arcee AI Trinity Large Thinking | Google Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Arcee AI | |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | April 1, 2026 | October 13, 2026 |
| Context window | 262K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.25 | $2.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.80 | $10.00 |
| Coding index | 5.4 | 80.5 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Trinity Large Thinking better than Gemini 4 Argon for coding?
Pick Gemini 4 Argon for coding: it scores 80.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 5.4 for Trinity Large Thinking. Pick Trinity Large Thinking when output tokens cost 12.5x less.
Which is cheaper, Trinity Large Thinking or Gemini 4 Argon?
Trinity Large Thinking costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens; Gemini 4 Argon costs $2.00 and $10.00. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Trinity Large Thinking or Gemini 4 Argon?
Gemini 4 Argon, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Trinity Large Thinking vs Gemini 4 Argon comparison based on?
36 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Trinity Large Thinking's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Gemini 4 Argon's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.