Gemini 4 Argon (High) vs GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 4 Argon (High) by Google or GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) by OpenAI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Trade-off

GoogleGemini 4 Argon (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 52.60
Total cost: $2407

OpenAIGPT-6.1 Sol (Max)On the frontier

Intelligence: 51.80
Total cost: $1082

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Gemini 4 Argon (High) scores 0.8 points higher (52.6 vs 51.8) but costs 2.2× as much to run the benchmark ($2407 vs $1082; flagship vs premium cost classes). Pick Gemini 4 Argon (High) when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise GPT-6.1 Sol (Max).

Metric	Gemini 4 Argon (High)	GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	52.6	51.8	−1.5% GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is 1.5% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$2,407.24	$1,081.55	−55.1% GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is 55.1% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	65.70s	220.48s	+235.6% GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is 235.6% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$2.00 / $10.0	$2.00 / $10.0
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image

GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) vs Gemini 4 Argon (High): 1.5% less intelligence, 55.1% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 235.6% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 4 Argon (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) scores 53.60 for $2172.
GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.

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