For 10,000 requests of 2,000 tokens in and 500 out, Gemini 4 Argon costs 68% less than GPT-6 Astra on Zurelay: $36.00 against $112.50. Both are below their labs' list prices: 60% for Gemini 4 Argon and 75% for GPT-6 Astra.
Side by side
| Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-6 Astra | |
|---|---|---|
| Lab | OpenAI | |
| Released | Oct 13, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.05M tokens |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 128K tokens |
| Reads | Text, Images, PDFs, Audio, Video | Text, Images, PDFs |
| Reasoning levels | low, medium, high | low, medium, high, xhigh, max |
| Price per 1M, in / out | $0.80 / $4.00 | $2.50 / $12.50 |
| Lab list price | $2.00 / $10.00 | $10.00 / $50.00 |
| Cached input per 1M | $0.04 | $0.25 |
| 10K typical requests | $36.00 | $112.50 |
Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens on Zurelay, live from the catalog. A typical request is 2,000 tokens in and 500 out. Output limits are each lab's.
What they're for
Gemini 4 Argon is Google's frontier model for software engineering, professional knowledge work and defensive cybersecurity, announced on September 30, 2026 and opened to developers on October 13, 2026. The Zurelay Gemini 4 Argon API serves it through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint with a 1M-token context window, at 60% below Google's list price.
GPT-6 Astra is the top model in OpenAI's GPT-6 family, built for complex reasoning, coding, research and document work. The GPT-6 Astra API on Zurelay runs the same model through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, below OpenAI's list price. It is for teams whose hardest tasks justify the most capable model.
Try both
Specs don't say which model handles your work better. Send the same requests to both and compare the answers, the tokens and the bill. On Zurelay that's a change of model name.
Every model from both labs is on GPT vs Gemini. To price a whole month, use the LLM cost calculator.
from openai import OpenAIclient = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.zurelay.com/v1", api_key="YOUR_ZURELAY_KEY")prompt = [{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this contract: ..."}]# Same key, same code: only the model name changesfor model in ["gemini-4-argon", "gpt-6-astra"]: reply = client.chat.completions.create(model=model, messages=prompt) print(model, reply.usage.total_tokens, reply.choices[0].message.content[:200])For 10,000 requests of 2,000 tokens in and 500 out, Gemini 4 Argon costs 68% less than GPT-6 Astra on Zurelay: $36.00 against $112.50. Per 1M tokens, Gemini 4 Argon is $0.80 input and $4.00 output, and GPT-6 Astra is $2.50 and $12.50.
GPT-6 Astra, at 1.05M tokens, against 1M for Gemini 4 Argon.
Yes. One Zurelay key calls both. With an OpenAI SDK, point it at https://api.zurelay.com/v1 and change only the model name, gemini-4-argon or gpt-6-astra, to switch.
Yes. Each model is served over several routes run by independent sellers, and every route is tested before it serves requests and every day after, with identity, dated-knowledge and reasoning checks that catch an older or different model sold under the name you asked for.
Create a key in seconds, point the SDK you already use at Zurelay, and every request costs up to 90% less from the first token.