MindsDB adds Gemini 4 Argon pricing at $2 input, $10 output per million
Gemini 4 Argon (Google) was added to MindsDB's model rate card at $2.00 per million input tokens, $10.00 output, $0.10 cached input, with no cache-write charge.
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WHY IT MATTERS
For buyers comparing inference costs, MindsDB's rate card is becoming a reasonable proxy for what's new in the model market — Gemini 4 Argon, at $2.00/$10.00, reached the card one day after the previous new model. The bigger story is MindsDB's own packaging: a company that restructured its entire pricing model into Free and Pay-as-you-go tiers on Oct 12 is still mid-iteration, not settled. Watch whether the Free tier's model lineup keeps pace with Pay-as-you-go's rapid additions, or whether new models like Gemini 4 Argon only ever land on the paid card.
BY THE NUMBERS
- MindsDB added Meta's Muse Wonder 1.0 just 1 day earlier, on Oct 15, 2026
- 17 MindsDB pricing changes in the last 90 days alone
- MindsDB has made 7 tracked feature-addition changes to its rate card
- MindsDB restructured into Free and Pay-as-you-go tiers on Oct 12, 2026
THEIR RATIONALE
MindsDB runs a pay-as-you-go model marketplace and competes on catalog breadth and freshness: it added Meta's Muse Wonder 1.0 just 1 day earlier, at $4.00 input and $20.00 output per 1M tokens, and has made 7 tracked rounds of new-model additions overall. MindsDB's pricing page updates about every 9 days on average, and considerably faster than that recently — getting a newly released model onto the card quickly is the business.
THE SIGNAL
MindsDB's rate card churns constantly: 17 changes in the last 90 days alone, more than half of its 32 tracked comparisons since Mar 9, 2026. Feature additions are common across the index — 343 of 1,721 changes tracked in the last six months, across 294 companies — and MindsDB, Together and Vercel are among the most frequent feature-adders in the index. What's notable isn't that MindsDB added a model, it's the cadence: a new model landed here on Oct 15 too, and the company overhauled its plan structure, swapping a plan-less rate card for Free and Pay-as-you-go tiers, on Oct 12.
IN CONTEXT
MindsDB added this one less than 24 hours after Meta's Muse Wonder 1.0 landed on the rate card at $4.00 input, $20.00 output, continuing a run that includes 7 tracked rounds of new models — from three new OpenAI models in July to MindsHub Blaze and GPT-OSS 120B in September. On Oct 12, MindsDB replaced its plan-less rate card with Free and Pay-as-you-go tiers, and this model landed on the new structure days later. MindsDB, Together and Vercel are among the most frequent feature-adders in the index. For a reseller competing on catalog breadth, cadence like this is the real story, not any single row on the rate card.