Meta: Muse Ember vs Google: Gemini 4 Argon (batch)

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Muse Ember costs $0.23 and Gemini 4 Argon (batch) costs $2.25, so Muse Ember is about 10.0 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.

On our blended benchmark score Gemini 4 Argon (batch) leads 82.1 to 56.7.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Muse Ember scores higher on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), Gemini 4 Argon (batch) on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

Muse Ember was released in November 2026 and Gemini 4 Argon (batch) in October 2026.

Pick Muse Ember if you need lower cost; pick Gemini 4 Argon (batch) if you need benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.