# Ars Technica — Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay

- Company: Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-13T16:00:02+00:00
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/gemini-4-argon-begins-rolling-out-in-gemini-app-and-antigravity-but-only-if-you-pay/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20515-gemini-4-argon-begins-rolling-out-in-gemini-app-and-antigravity-but-only-if
- Subject: Reporting
- Models affected: Gemini 4 Argon
- Pricing: Pricing is temporarily set at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with a 95 percent discount for cached tokens. This deal is only good through November 30, at which time the rate will jump to $4 per 1M input tokens and $20 per 1M output tokens.

Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Argon to paying users in the Gemini app and Antigravity, with full access limited to AI Pro ($20/mo) and AI Ultra (starting at $99/mo) subscribers. In Antigravity and AI Studio, only AI Ultra users can access the new model. API pricing is temporarily $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 respectively after November 30.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/gemini-4-argon-begins-rolling-out-in-gemini-app-and-antigravity-but-only-if-you-pay/:

> Argon is beginning its wide rollout today, but it’s only coming to paying users at this time, and even those on lower-tier plans won’t have full access.

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