I wish they would either reduce the price of Argon, or provide a "weaker" model at a decent price.

At my work, Argon is deemed to be too expensive, and gemini-3.8 flash is just not good enough.

Deepseek is good enough for me that I use it for everything cost sensitive. I tend to switch to Google's models for world knowledge, planning, and complicated bugs that Deepseek gets stuck on. Argon is also a great writer in my experience, hopefully Carbon is the same. Seems like RL for code generation ruins most model's communication abilities. V4.1 Flash 1017 is a significant step back from the previous Deepseek model in that respect, despite being a noticeably better coder.