I'm really wondering why I see so many people complain about the Gemini 4 Argon quota. Testing it, obviously, it seems that, in a Pro account, the discrepancy in quota between Pro and the two Ultra account subscriptions seems to be huge.
I'm a long-lasting Gemini user. I was, until a few months ago, on the $200 plan because I was using Opus 4.6 back then until the quota was extremely limited, and Gemini 2.5 was not a very good model for coding.
That's why I reduced my plan, but I'm using many other Google applications that are in the Gemini bundle, so I stayed with them on the Ultra subscription for $99. The Ultra plan is a pretty nice package, specifically if you like to have a bit more cloud storage, but also YouTube Pro and things like that.
Now, after testing Argon for3 days, I worked intensively with it. It's the third day in full, with several sessions, and my weekly quota was down to 16%. Now, a few hours ago, I upgraded to the $200 subscription, and looking at how slowly the weekly quota and the 5-hour quota are draining, I would say this is definitely more quota on the $200 plan than you would get for an Anthropic Max plan.
I'm absolutely positive that this is a much better deal because it's also a much more reliable model, specifically when you have projects where you don't want to break something while you implement something new (like it will happen with the other so-called frontier models).
I didn't have time until now to go into creative discussions with it to see how strong it is as a thinking partner, but as a coding agent and senior software engineer, it's really stunning.