Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Opus 5.5: The Full Table and Which Model to Use
Google says its new model beats Claude Opus 5.5 on 14 of 18 tests. The full table, the four tests Opus still wins, what Argon costs next to Claude, and a cheat sheet for picking a model by job
On October 13, Google released Gemini 4 Argon. On the benchmark table in Google's own model card it scores higher than Claude Opus 5.5 on 14 of the 18 tests where Opus has a score, and lower on four. Here is the whole table, what it means for someone who uses Claude, and a cheat sheet.
One caution first: every number below comes from Google's table. Google does not say how it got the Claude scores.
The full table (Google's own numbers)
| Test | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-6 Astra | Claude Fable 5.1 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 68.9% | 63.1% | 65.8% | 67.0% |
| AutomationBench | 51.3% | 41.4% | 31.4% | 42.5% |
| Vals Finance Agent v2 | 65.4% | 53.5% | 58.9% | 58.6% |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark | 19.6% | 5.4% | 6.7% | 3.8% |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 77.9% | 74.1% | 67.4% | 74.2% |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 55.0% | 65.5% | 56.3% | 62.3% |
| Vibe Code Bench | 91.9% | 89.6% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
| Terminal-bench 4.0 | 57.4% | 58.2% | 57.9% | 66.4% |
| PostTrainBench | 45.3% | 44.3% | 40.2% | 49.3% |
| Terminal-Bench Science 0.1 | 57.6% | 68.1% | 52.6% | 63.3% |
| LABBench 2 | 88.8% | 85.4% | 68.6% | 73.1% |
| RiemannBench | 76.0% | 72.0% | 65.6% | 69.6% |
| GraphWalks, up to 128k (BFS F1) | 99.7% | 98.7% | 91.4% | 90.6% |
| GraphWalks, 256k to 1M (BFS F1) | 84.2% | 71.8% | 65.0% | 66.8% |
| Agent's Last Exam | 39.5% | 34.2% | - | 38.2% |
| OSWorld-2.0 (offline subset) | 69.2% | 72.6% | - | - |
| Chartography | 71.6% | 71.0% | 46.2% | 66.3% |
| LVBench | 91.7% | 87.5% | 79.7% | 83.7% |
| CWE-bench v1 | 68.0% | 68.0% | 58.0% | 67.0% |
A dash means Google shows no score for that model. Counting the 18 rows where Opus 5.5 has a score, Argon is ahead on 14 and Opus is ahead on 4.
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