Google: Gemini 4 Argon vs SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-19.
| Google: Gemini 4 Argon | SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | x-ai | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 90.2 | 78.4 |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $2.00/M |
| Output Price | $10.00/M | $6.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 500,000 |
| Max Output | 943,718 | 450,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | ✓ | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 86.7 | 76.6 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Grok 4.7 costs $3.50 and Gemini 4 Argon costs $4.50, so Grok 4.7 is about 1.3 times cheaper for the same work.
Gemini 4 Argon reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 750 pages for Grok 4.7.
Only Gemini 4 Argon offers audio input and video input.
On our blended benchmark score Gemini 4 Argon leads 90.2 to 78.4.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on 15 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Grok 4.7 on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).
Gemini 4 Argon was released in October 2026 and Grok 4.7 in September 2026.
Pick Gemini 4 Argon if you need long documents, audio input, video input, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Grok 4.7 if you need lower cost.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Google: Gemini 4 Argon | SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 143 | 142 |
| Code Review | 148 | 146 |
| Code Completion | 119 | 119 |
| Code Refactoring | 149 | 148 |
| Bug Fixing | 152 | 150 |
| Unit Test Generation | 134 | 133 |
| Code Documentation | 137 | 137 |
| Regex Writing | 126 | 126 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 130 | 129 |
| Frontend Component Design | 132 | 131 |
| Data Analysis | 137 | 135 |
| ETL Scripting | 140 | 138 |
| JSON Extraction | 121 | 122 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 118 | 119 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 135 | 134 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 135 | 134 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 150 | 149 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 117 | 118 |
| Blog Post Writing | 131 | 130 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →