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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.

Gemini 3.8 Flash is GA with 1M context, controllable thinking, and introductory pricing of $0.75 / $3.75. The real change is not another leaderboard: it is a lower-cost main worker for long agent workflows, provided you control tokens, caching, and validation.

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 DeepMind is showing an experimental text diffusion model. For companies, the point is not immediate deployment, but the direction: faster intermediate steps, editing, coding, and lower-latency agent workflows.