Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct vs Gemini 4 Argon
Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison
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Compare Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct by NVIDIA against Gemini 4 Argon by Google across real-world coding, reasoning, token economics, and latency.
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Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct
Modelo Base de Pesos AbertosO Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct da NVIDIA é um modelo de IA projetado para auto-hospedagem em infraestrutura própria, fine-tuning e soberania de dados, oferecendo janela de contexto de 128K, velocidade de 160 tokens/s, índice de inteligência de
$0.05 / 1M
$0.15 / 1M
128K tokens
22%
Gemini 4 Argon
IA Multimodal NativaO Gemini 4 Argon da Google é um modelo de IA projetado para compreensão multimodal nativa de texto e imagem e leitura visual de documentos, oferecendo janela de contexto de 1M, velocidade de 115 tokens/s, índice de inteligência de 97/100 e
$2.00 / 1M
$10.00 / 1M
1M tokens
81.9%
Principais Diferenças em Resumo
- Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct is 50.6x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
- Gemini 4 Argon has a larger context window (1M vs 128K tokens).
- Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct is faster at 160 tok/s vs 115 tok/s.
- Gemini 4 Argon leads on SWE-bench coding (81.9% vs 22.0%).
| Feature | Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100) | 35 | 97 |
Provider | NVIDIA | |
Input Price Cost per million input tokens | $0.05 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
Output Price Cost per million output tokens | $0.15 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M | $0.04 / 1M | $1.47 / 1M |
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens | 128K tokens~192 A4 pages of text | 1M tokens~1,500 A4 pages of text |
Max Output Tokens Per single request | 4K | 1000K |
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second | 160 tok/s | 115 tok/s |
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering | 22% | 81.9% |
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning | 38% | 81.5% |
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens | $0.02 / 1M | $0.10 / 1M |
Quem vence em cada categoria?
At-a-glance decision frameworkPontuações de Benchmarks Verificadas
Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.
Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.
Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.
Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.
Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.
Extremely difficult, closed-ended questions spanning the frontier of human expert knowledge.
Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.
Research-grade coding problems drawn from real scientific and numerical workloads.
Contamination-free competitive programming problems collected continuously over time.
American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.
Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.
Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.
Latência e Tempo de Resposta
Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.
Simulador Interativo de Custo de Tokens
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Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct · Strengths & Key Advantages
- Janela de contexto de 128K com limite máximo de saída de 4K tokens (SWE-bench Verified 22% · GPQA Diamond 38%)
- Taxa de transferência rápida de 160 tokens/segundo com latência inicial (TTFT) de 250 ms
- Pesos abertos (4B) para auto-hospedagem local ou em nuvem privada via vLLM, SGLang ou Ollama
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Requer servidores GPU com memória VRAM adequada para execução local em precisão total
- Em derivações científicas extremas, modelos pesados dedicados exclusivamente ao raciocínio oferecem maior profundidade
Gemini 4 Argon · Strengths & Key Advantages
- Janela de contexto de 1M com limite máximo de saída de 1M tokens (SWE-bench Verified 81.9% · GPQA Diamond 81.5%)
- Taxa de transferência rápida de 115 tokens/segundo com latência inicial (TTFT) de 850 ms
- Economia de API competitiva ($2/$10 por 1M de tokens) com suporte a cache de prompts e saídas JSON estruturadas
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Modelo proprietário em nuvem; não permite download dos pesos para execução local offline
- Para alto volume de requisições, recomenda-se ativar o cache de prompts e a Batch API para reduzir custos
Token Use & Task Economics
Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.
| Metric | Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task | $0.03 | $2.45 |
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task | 15K | 75K |
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task | 0K | 36K |
Especificações Técnicas
Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.
| Feature | Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| Official API Model ID (SDK) | nemotron-mini-4b | models/gemini-4-argon |
| API Protocol | OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI | Google Gemini API (generateContent) + OpenAI-Compatible SDK |
| Release Date | 2024-08 | 2026-09 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | June 2024 | June 2026 |
| Architecture | Pruned and Distilled Compact Transformer | Pathways Multimodal Sparse Mixture-of-Experts |
| Parameters | 4B | Confidential |
| Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM) | Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud | 10,000 – 30,000 RPM (Tier 5 Enterprise) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM |
| Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K) | Flat rate ($0.05/1M in) across full 128K window | Standard rate up to 200K tokens; 2x input/output tier above 200K tokens |
| Prompt Cache Policy & TTL | Cached input at $0.02/1M tokens | Implicit + Explicit Context Caching at $0.1/1M with configurable TTL |
| Computer Use / GUI Agent | API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop) | Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops) |
| MCP & Parallel Tool Calling | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema |
| Web Search Grounding & Sandbox | Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools | Built-in Google Search Grounding + Managed Python Code Execution Sandbox |
| Official Fine-Tuning Support | Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory) | Vertex AI Supervised Adapter Tuning & Context Distillation |
| Multimodal Token Billing | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) · Audio (~25–32 tokens/sec) · Video (~258–300 tokens/sec) |
| Quantization & Min GPU VRAM | BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 2 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 9 GB VRAM (Native BF16) | Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API) |
| Safety & Frontier Classification | Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma) | Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework Verified |
| Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2) | 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control | SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier |
| Input Modalities | text | text, vision, audio, video |
| Output Modalities | text | text |
Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct vs Gemini 4 Argon: Respostas Rápidas (FAQ)
Which is more intelligent, Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct or Gemini 4 Argon?
Gemini 4 Argon is more intelligent. It scores 97 compared with 35 on the composite Intelligence Index.
Which model is faster?
Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct is faster, generating 160 tokens per second compared with 115 tokens per second.
Which model is cheaper to run?
Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct is cheaper at $0.04 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $1.47 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).
Which model has lower latency?
Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.25s compared with 0.85s.
Which model has a larger context window?
Gemini 4 Argon has a larger context window, supporting 1M tokens compared with 128K tokens.
Veredito
Choose Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct for indicado para auto-hospedagem em infraestrutura própria, fine-tuning e soberania de dados, arquiteturas rag corporativas e integração escalável via api., or choose Gemini 4 Argon for indicado para compreensão multimodal nativa de texto e imagem e leitura visual de documentos, arquiteturas rag corporativas e integração escalável via api..
Perguntas Frequentes (FAQ)
Which is cheaper: Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct or Gemini 4 Argon?+
Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct costs $0.05/1M input and $0.15/1M output tokens, while Gemini 4 Argon costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens.
Which model has a larger context window: Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct or Gemini 4 Argon?+
Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct supports 128K tokens whereas Gemini 4 Argon supports 1M tokens.
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Fontes oficiais: NVIDIA & Google Official Documentation