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Sakana: Fugu Max

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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 tasks across a fixed pool of open-weights and specialized models, including NVIDIA's Nemotron family, and to recursively call instances of itself.

Fugu Max dynamically selects efficient combinations of expert agents to improve quality and cost together, and is priced flat regardless of context length. It supports configurable reasoning effort (high, xhigh, max), function calling, structured outputs, image and PDF input, and built-in web search and web fetch. Orchestration tokens consumed by the system are billed as standard input/output tokens.

Modalities
In / Out Price
$2 / $6per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Sep 11, 2026
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Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

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Frequently asked questions

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 tasks across a fixed pool of open-weights and specialized models, including NVIDIA's Nemotron family, and to recursively call instances of itself.

Fugu Max costs $2.00/M input tokens and $6.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.25/M tokens and Web Search at $10.00/1K calls.

Fugu Max has a 1,000,000 token context window. It supports up to 128,000 completion tokens.

Yes. Fugu Max accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

Fugu Max accepts text, images, and files such as PDFs as input and returns text.

Fugu Ultra v2, Sakana Namazu, and Fugu Ultra are other text models from Sakana.

Fugu Max was released on September 11, 2026.

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Fugu Ultra v2

Fugu Ultra v2 is the higher-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 tasks across a fixed pool of open and specialized models and to recursively call instances of itself.

Fugu Ultra v2 prioritizes answer quality on complex multi-step reasoning, autonomous research, and full-stack software development, and does not rely on individual proprietary frontier models in its pool. It supports configurable reasoning effort (high, xhigh, max), function calling, structured outputs, image and PDF input, and built-in web search. Prompts above 272K tokens are billed at a higher rate. Orchestration tokens consumed by the system are billed as standard input/output tokens.

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Sakana Namazu

Sakana Namazu is a Japanese-specialized reasoning model from Sakana AI, based on Kimi K2.6 with additional training for Japanese language and business contexts. It is suited for Japanese instruction following, business writing, mathematics, coding, research, and multi-step agent workflows.

Sakana AI may use inputs for model training and improvement by default, with an opt-out available in the Sakana Console. Processing entirely within Japan is not guaranteed.

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Fugu Ultra

Fugu Ultra is the higher-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 tasks across a swappable pool of underlying models and to recursively call instances of itself.

Fugu Ultra prioritizes answer quality on complex, multi-step reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows. It supports configurable reasoning effort, tool calling, and built-in web search. Orchestration tokens consumed by the system are billed as standard input/output tokens.

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