Gemini 4 Argon vs Hy4
Gemini 4 Argon leads Hy4 on coding, 81.0 to 65.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Hy4 costs 8.0x less per output token ($1.2505 vs $10.00 per million). Updated November 5, 2026; 6 benchmarks have a result for both.
vs boards won of 6 shared
Gemini 4 Argon or Hy4: which to pick
Pick Gemini 4 Argon for coding: it scores 81.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 65.2 for Hy4.
Pick Hy4 for output tokens 8.0x cheaper ($1.2505 vs $10.00 per million).
Model AGemini 4 ArgonGoogle81.0/1005 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel BHy4Tencent65.2/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 6
- Gemini 4 Argon only
- 105
- Hy4 only
- 0
- Like-for-like categories
- 3 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
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, six public coding benchmarks
Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon scores 81.0 against 65.2.
5 and 2 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Gemini 4 Argon has a AA Intelligence Index result, 50.4.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Gemini 4 Argon has a Design Arena: websites result, 1316.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon leads, 69.2% against 59.4%.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
No call
Both take 1.05M tokens.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Hy4
Gemini 4 Argon $0.0070, Hy4 $0.0010 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 4 Argon 81.0 from 5 benchmarks, Hy4 65.2 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 17.6 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI): Gemini 4 Argon 57.6% against Hy4 39.4%, 24.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 4 Argon $10.00 against Hy4 $1.2505 per million output tokens, 8.0x apart.
- Context window
- Both take 1.05M tokens.
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 | Gemini 4 Argon | Bars | Hy4 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 3 | 0 | ||
| General | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 6 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 89.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1679 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 57.6% | 39.4% | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 91.9% | 81.0% | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 68.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 2.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 100.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 57.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 56.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 21.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 77.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SciCode | 61.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| FrontierCode | 47.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| FrontierSWE | 55.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| MirrorCode | 58.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ALE-Bench | 2100.1 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1538 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1545 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1694 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1667 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SciCode | 12.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SWE-Bench Pro V2 | 99.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| GameBench 2 | 89.0 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| CursorBench 4.0 | 52.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 50.4 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 166.4 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1267 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1199 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveBench research | 83.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveBench browser | 82.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 61.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 44.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 65.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 44.6% | 34.4% | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 54.8% | 41.4% | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 27.1% | 12.5% | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 75.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 76.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 44.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Vals Science Index | 55.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | 52.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| CUA-bench (Vals AI) | 4.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Robo-bench (Vals AI) | 0.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| APEX-Agents | 82.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 17.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $13,718 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | 95.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 45.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 57.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 96.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ARC-AGI | 98.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 91.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Chess puzzles | 59.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 64.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| EBR-bench | 64.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1542 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1549 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1539 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Scale run) | 53.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| GoBench | 2353 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 100.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 86.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 78.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ProofBench | 99.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1538 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1549 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| MathArena | 70.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 88.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 58.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 76.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1546 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1544 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1537 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1515 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| PRBench Finance | 49.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| PRBench Legal | 49.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1316 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1332 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1366 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1332 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1369 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1327 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1330 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveBench design | 73.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 69.2% | 59.4% | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LiveBench data analysis | 85.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 69.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 89.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 87.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 79.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| DTBench | 97.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMCA | 63.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Furniture assembly | 72.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text | 1529 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1533 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1527 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1529 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1521 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1600 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1559 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1546 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1550 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1505 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1535 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1538 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1542 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1542 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1526 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1520 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| MultiChallenge | 78.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1236 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Hy4 | 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
Gemini 4 Argon$0.0070Fits in one request
Hy4$0.0010Fits in one request
Hy4 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Gemini 4 Argon$0.130Fits in one request
Hy4$0.025Fits in one request
Hy4 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Gemini 4 Argon$0.500Fits in one request
Hy4$0.096Fits in one request
Hy4 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 | Google Gemini 4 Argon | Tencent Hy4 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Tencent | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | October 13, 2026 | November 4, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $2.00 | $0.417 |
| Output $/Mtok | $10.00 | $1.2505 |
| Coding index | 81.0 | 65.2 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 4 Argon better than Hy4 for coding?
Pick Gemini 4 Argon for coding: it scores 81.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 65.2 for Hy4. Pick Hy4 for output tokens 8.0x cheaper ($1.2505 vs $10.00 per million).
Which is cheaper, Gemini 4 Argon or Hy4?
Gemini 4 Argon costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; Hy4 costs $0.417 and $1.2505. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 4 Argon or Hy4?
Neither: both take 1.05M tokens.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 4 Argon vs Hy4 comparison based on?
6 benchmarks have a result for both models as of November 5, 2026. Gemini 4 Argon's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Hy4's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.