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Google's Gemini 4 Argon Now Available in Devin Desktop and CLI with Special Pricing

October 13, 2026 at 12:23 EDT

Foundation Models
Software Dev & Coding

Google DeepMind's frontier model Gemini 4 Argon is now accessible through Devin Desktop and the command-line interface, marking expanded availability for the company's most capable AI coder. The integration gives Cognition AI's platform users direct access to one of Google's newest frontier models for AI-powered software engineering tasks, adding to Devin's existing roster of models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and other providers.

October 13, 2026 · Frontier AI

Gemini 4 Argon Arrives in Devin

Google's frontier model now available in Devin Desktop and CLI with strong long-form and automation capabilities, but practical coding benchmarks remain competitive.

77.9%

DeepSWE v1.1 Score

Max Output Tokens

15%

Hallucination Rate

Benchmark Performance Comparison

55%

FrontierSWE v2

62.3%

Claude Opus 5.5

65.5%

GPT-6 Astra

Key Tradeoff

Despite $2/$10 per-million-token introductory pricing, Gemini 4 Argon averages 62K output tokens per task, resulting in ~$3.98 actual cost versus ~$1.70 for competing models.

+ Strengths

77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1
15% hallucination rate
1M token output capacity
84% on long-form analysis

- Challenges

55% on FrontierSWE v2
Higher practical per-task cost
Limited availability (Fairwind only)
57% on Terminal-Bench 4

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