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title: "Sakana: Fugu Max — unrated, priced in this catalogue · Undominated.ai"
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# Sakana: Fugu Max — unrated, priced in this catalogue · Undominated.ai

> Sakana: Fugu Max: $2.00/M in, $6.00/M out. No independent quality score in this catalogue — unrated, not ranked, not scored zero.

MODEL PROOF

# Fugu Max

Sakana AI · 11 Sept 2026

 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

NOT INDEPENDENTLY RATED

## No independent LMArena score is published for this model.

 **$3.00** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

 Independent LMArena score Not independently rated
 Context window 1M
 Maximum output 128K
 Input modalities text, image, file
 Output modalities text
 Published input price $2.00 / 1M tokens
 Published output price $6.00 / 1M tokens
 Pricing kind fixed

Evidence as of 19 Sept 2026

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Sakana: Fugu Max. Balanced workload. Not independently rated. Evidence as of 19 Sept 2026.

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$2.00/M in, $6.00/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription. Fugu Max has no independent quality score. Unrated is not a score of zero.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $2.00 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $6.00 /M |
| Cached input | $0.250 /M |
| Web search | $0.01 /call |

### Who sells it

The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.

| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seller Sakana AI | Input $2.00 | Output $6.00 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 100.00% |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model. Unrated is not a score of zero.

### Capability

| Context window | 1M |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 128K |
| Input modes | text, image, file |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | always on |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-09-19 |
| Quality data | unrated |

Fugu Max is the cost-performance model in Sakana AI's Fugu family. Rather than a single monolithic model, Fugu is a learned multi-agent orchestration system: a language model trained to route...

## Questions this page answers

### What does Fugu Max cost?

$2.00/M in, $6.00/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

### Does Fugu Max have an independent quality score?

Fugu Max has no independent quality score in this catalogue. Unrated is not a score of zero.

### What beats Fugu Max?

Fugu Max has no independent quality score. Unrated is not a score of zero.

### Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Fugu Max?

No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.

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## Related

No independent quality score, so there is no dominator to name. Unrated is not a clean bill of health.

 - Same vendor [Fugu Ultra](/models/sakana__fugu-ultra/)
- Sakana AI models [Sakana AI](/providers/sakana-ai/)
- Where this model appears [effort](/effort/)
- Same vendor [Fugu Ultra v2](/models/sakana__fugu-ultra-v2/)
- Same vendor [Sakana Namazu](/models/sakana__sakana-namazu/)

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