Is Gemini 4 Argon SOTA? Yes, in Reasoning

Q: Is Gemini 4 Argon state of the art?

Yes. SOTA in co-SOTA in Reasoning. As of Oct 13, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon from Google DeepMind. SOTA in co-SOTA in Reasoning. Gemini 4 Argon is co-SOTA in Reasoning with low confidence because primary sources disagree beyond the margin of error (with GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5).

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Is Gemini 4 Argon state of the art?

Yes.SOTA in co-SOTA in Reasoning.

As of Oct 13, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon from Google DeepMind. SOTA in co-SOTA in Reasoning. Gemini 4 Argon is co-SOTA in Reasoning with low confidence because primary sources disagree beyond the margin of error (with GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5).

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 13, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: low

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Why

The ruling, in plain English

Ranked #1 in General LLM.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot

Source	Score	Date	Type	Receipt
LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall) gemini-4-argon-high · high	1525.3956435571818 1516.5–1534.2	2026-10-08	INDEP.	snap_51142aff7bb5
LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts) gemini-4-argon-high · high	1550.9987542750314 1540.0–1562.0	2026-10-08	INDEP.	snap_51142aff7bb5
LMArena WebDev gemini-4-argon-high · high	1677.8058895588372 1662.4–1693.2	2026-10-08	INDEP.	snap_6c327280fd30
LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query) gemini-4-argon-high · high	1544.6511716987063 1530.8–1558.5	2026-10-08	INDEP.	snap_51142aff7bb5
LMArena Text factuality gemini-4-argon-high · high	1511.6498903397928 1504.2–1519.1	2026-10-08	INDEP.	snap_ee60de771ba0

Reign history

Where it sits in the succession

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Reasoning

Gemini 1.5 Pro 002

Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp 03.25

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05.06

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06.05

O4 Mini

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06.05

GPT-5

GPT-5 Mini

Gemini 3 Pro Preview

GPT-5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro Preview

GPT-5 Pro

Claude Opus 4.1

Gemini 3 Pro Preview

GPT-5 Pro

Claude Opus 4.1

Claude Opus 4.6

Gemini 3 Pro Preview

GPT-5 Pro

Claude Opus 4.6

Gemini 3 Pro Preview

GLM 5

GPT-5 Pro

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 3 Pro Preview

GPT-5 Pro

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

GPT-5.4 Pro

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

GPT-5.4 Mini

GPT-5.4 Pro

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

GPT-5.4 Mini

GPT-5.4 Pro

Muse Spark

Claude Opus 4.5

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

GPT-5.4 Pro

Muse Spark

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

GLM 5.1

GPT-5.4 Pro

Muse Spark

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

GPT-5.4 Pro

GPT-5.5

Muse Spark

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

GPT-5.4

GPT-5.4 Pro

Muse Spark

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Gemini 3 Pro

GPT-5.4 Pro

Muse Spark

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

GPT-5.4 Pro

Kimi K3

Muse Spark

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

GLM 5.3

GPT-5.4 Pro

Muse Spark

Claude Fable 5.1

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Gemini 3.7 Flash

GPT-5.4 Pro

Muse Spark

Claude Fable 5.1

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Gemini 3.8 Flash

GPT-5.4 Pro

Muse Spark

Gemini 3.7 Flash

GPT-6 Astra

Muse Spark 1.1

Claude Fable 5

GPT-6 Astra

Claude Opus 5

GPT-6 Astra

Claude Opus 5.5

Gemini 4 Argon

GPT-6 Astra

Honest about the gaps

Where it is not the crown

Category	This model	Why
General LLM	Not SOTA · #1	Ranked #1 in General LLM.
Coding › Web dev	Not SOTA · #8	Ranked #8 in Coding › Web dev.
Factuality	Not SOTA · #1	Ranked #1 in Factuality.