Google spent the last two weeks telling developers that Gemini 4 Argon is the most capable model it has ever shipped. The charts are everywhere: bars where Argon edges past Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, a price tag of two dollars per million input tokens, and a first-place finish on a public arena leaderboard. But the benchmark tables making the rounds were measured at a setting most subscribers will never touch, and that headline price has an expiry date. Here is what the marketing slides le...