# Sakana: Fugu Max

Provider: sakana  
Category: llm  
Model ID: `sakana/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...

## Specs

- Context length: 1000000 tokens
- Max output: 128000 tokens
- Modalities: text, image, file
- Released: 2026-09-11

## Pricing

- Input: $2.00 per million tokens
- Output: $6.00 per million tokens

## Providers

- **sakana** — ctx 1000000, input $2.00/M, output $6.00/M

## Verdict

Fugu Max is Sakana's flagship model with a massive 1M token context window at aggressive pricing — $2 input/$6 output per Mtok undercuts most competitors by 40-60%. The model handles text, images, and files, making it suitable for multimodal workflows that need to process large documents or codebases in one pass. Without public benchmarks, you're trading proven performance data for cost savings and context capacity. Reach for this when budget and context length matter more than established track records.

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Last verified: 2026-10-19T02:30:34.239Z  
Canonical URL: https://switchy.build/directory/models/fugu-max