Sakana: Fugu Max
by SakanaSakana: Fugu Max is a large language model from Sakana. It costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens. Its context window is 1M tokens.
- Input / 1M tokens
- $2.00
- Output / 1M tokens
- $6.00
- Cached input / 1M
- $0.250
- Context window
- 1M
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This model also charges $0.01 per search request
That is $10.00 per 1,000 requests, billed on top of the token prices above. On a typical 1,000-in / 500-out exchange the tokens cost $0.005, so the search fee is 2.0× the token cost. Per-token rankings elsewhere ignore this entirely.
Who serves it cheapest
1 hosts serve Fugu Max. Same weights, same API - the price difference is pure margin and routing.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Throughput | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sakana AICheapest | $2.00 | $6.00 | 1M | - | 100.0% |
About Fugu Max
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...
Specifications
| Model ID | sakana/fugu-max |
|---|---|
| Provider | Sakana |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 128K tokens |
| Input modalities | text, image, file |
| Output modalities | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | - |
| Open weights | No |
| Released | September 11, 2026 |
Cheaper alternatives
Models that cost less than Fugu Max while keeping at least half its context window and every input modality it supports.
Frequently asked
How much does Sakana: Fugu Max cost?
$2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens. Cached input reads cost $0.250 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Sakana: Fugu Max?
1M tokens, with up to 128K tokens of output per request.
Does Sakana: Fugu Max have extra fees beyond per-token pricing?
Yes. Sakana: Fugu Max charges $0.01 per search request - $10.00 per 1,000 requests - on top of $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens. On a typical 1,000-input / 500-output exchange the search fee alone is 2.0× the token cost.