Model comparison
Gemini 4 Argon and Mercury 3 compared on price, context window, capabilities and published benchmarks. Data comes from the OpenModels registry.
| Specification | Gemini 4 Argon | Mercury 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Mercury | |
| Released | Oct 1, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M tokens | 1M tokens |
| Input price / 1M | $2.00via Google AI Studio | $0.10via OpenRouter |
| Output price / 1M | $10.00via Google AI Studio | $0.35via OpenRouter |
| Providers | 2 | 1 |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| Input modalities | audio, code, image, text, video | code, text |
| Capabilities | chat, completion, function-calling, vision, audio, code-generation, reasoning | chat, completion, function-calling, code-generation, reasoning |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
Only benchmarks with a published score for at least one of the two models are shown. Published scores with their sources. Vendor-reported results use the vendor's own evaluation settings and are not directly comparable across vendors.
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Mercury 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 53Artificial Analysis · Independent | — |
| AutomationBench | 51.3%Google (via Help Net Security) · Vendor-reported | — |
| CWE-bench | 68%Google (via Help Net Security) · Vendor-reported | — |
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 77.9%Google (via Help Net Security) · Vendor-reported |
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| LVBench | 91.7%Google (via Help Net Security) · Vendor-reported | — |
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