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feat(providers): price Gemini 4 Argon on Copilot - #623

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Gemini 4 Argon reached Copilot GA on 2026-10-13, but the Copilot pricing table had no row for gemini-4-argon, so requests against it priced as unknown.

The rates come from public sources only; no probe was run, since no account with Argon access was available.

  • GitHub's changelog bills Argon at provider list pricing, and the billing reference quotes one Default tier at $2.00 input / $0.10 cached input / $10.00 output.
  • Google's pricing page publishes the same id and the same promotional card through 2026-11-30, doubling on 2026-12-01.
  • models.dev agrees on all three rates.
  • The single band spans the whole 1M-token window. Google reprices several Gemini 3 models above 200k; it does not do so for Argon.
  • Only implicit caching exists, so there is no cache-write rate to quote.
  • Google sells Batch/Flex/Priority lanes for Argon, but Copilot's billing surface names no tier for this model, so the entry is Base-only rather than inventing a serviceTier coordinate.

MODEL_CATALOG_REVISION is bumped because static pricing serializes into cached ProviderModel rows.

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References:
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-13-gemini-4-argon-in-github-copilot/
https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing/models-and-pricing
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing#gemini-4-argon

Gemini 4 Argon reached Copilot GA on 2026-10-13 under the stable
`gemini-4-argon` id, and Google's own pricing page publishes the same id.
GitHub's changelog bills it at provider list pricing, and the billing
reference quotes one Default tier at $2.00 input / $0.10 cached input /
$10.00 output — the same promotional card Google runs through 2026-11-30
before doubling on 2026-12-01. models.dev agrees on all three rates.

Two properties separate it from the Gemini 3.x rows: Google lists a single
band for the 1M-token window instead of repricing above 200k, and its only
caching is implicit, so no cache-write rate exists to quote. Google sells
Batch/Flex/Priority lanes too, but Copilot's billing surface names no tier
for this model, so the entry stays Base-only.

Pricing was researched from public sources only; no probe was run, as no
account with Argon access was available.

Bump the persisted model catalog revision because the static pricing
serializes into cached ProviderModel rows.

References:
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-13-gemini-4-argon-in-github-copilot/
https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing/models-and-pricing
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing#gemini-4-argon
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