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Gemini 4 Argon versus Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra across coding, terminal agents and automation benchmarks—and how to compare them in your own workflow.

Haiku wins on short-request pricing; Flash-Lite is cheaper for long inputs. Current rates, independent benchmarks, and practical choices for automation and business agents.

OpenAI restored a five-hour window on top of the weekly allowance for Plus users in ChatGPT Work and Codex. For long agents, cost per completed task, checkpoints, and credit options now matter more than a model’s API price.

Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026. Independent benchmarks show excellent speed and agentic performance, but also a higher cost than the older Flash model and weaker spots in hard coding, instruction following and sensitive decisions.