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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Gemini 4 Argon API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), both cost $0.007 per request.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Sonnet 5.5 ranks #8 and Gemini 4 Argon ranks #3.

Prices are the standard pay-as-you-go prices in OpenRouter's public model list, with input at the cache-miss price. Models OpenRouter does not list use the vendor's official price; those listed in CNY are converted to USD at this round's exchange rate.

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Prices and rankings

USD per million tokensClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemini 4 Argon
Input$2$2
Output$10$10
Cached input$0.1$0.1
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Release date—2026-09-30
Overall rank#8#3
Coding rank#12#13
Reasoning rank#6—
Knowledge rank#30#1
Professional work rank#2#1
Verified2026-10-192026-10-19
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemini 4 ArgonDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.007$7 per 1,000$0.007$7 per 1,000Same
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.22$220 per 1,000$0.22$220 per 1,000Same
Agent session500K in / 50K out$1.5$1,500 per 1,000$1.5$1,500 per 1,000Same

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