Truth Check/2 October 2026

“"Argon will launch at an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens" - the same input and output prices as GPT-6.1 Sol”

The claim as it travelled: Google, 30 Sept 2026; OpenAI, 29 Sept 2026.

Both prices are on Google's Argon announcement, and OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol page prints the same two figures a day earlier.

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Google's new frontier model costs $2 in, $10 out - OpenAI's price - and only cyber defenders can use it

Gemini 4 Argon's price, scores and release terms against Google's own page; "the FTC has opened an investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic" against what the agency has actually put on the record; and the impossible-task test to run on any agent before it gets your logins.

Every claim we have checked, in the Ledger.