Fugu Max: API pricing, context window and capabilities

Prices from official vendor price lists · October 2026

Fugu Max costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens. Mid-priced: dearer than 75% of this rating. Recorded for reasoning, adjustable thinking, web search grounding.

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Capabilities
Text & chatReasoningAdjustable thinking
API $/1M (in / out)
$2 / $6
Price / mo
API only
Output $/1M
6
OverviewReviews

Fugu Max is an AI model from Sakana, priced at $2 input and $6 output per 1M tokens. That places it in the mid tier of this rating — dearer than 75% of the 205 priced models listed.

Capabilities recorded in this rating: text & chat, reasoning, adjustable thinking, web search grounding, tool calling. Access is through the API rather than a consumer subscription.

API price$2 / $6per 1M tokens, in / out
ContextNot publishedtokens per conversation
VendorSakanaall models from this vendor
TierMiddearer than 75% of models

Cost calculator

Standard$5.00AED 18 per month
With batch −50%$2.50AED 9 per month
With caching on input$4.55AED 17 per month
Standard$50.00AED 184 per month
With batch −50%$25.00AED 92 per month
With caching on input$45.50AED 167 per month
Standard$250AED 918 per month
With batch −50%$125AED 459 per month
With caching on input$228AED 835 per month
Standard$1,000AED 3,673 per month
With batch −50%$500AED 1,836 per month
With caching on input$910AED 3,342 per month

Assumes a 1:3 input-to-output ratio, which is typical for chat and generation. Dirham figures use 3.6725 per dollar. Batch and caching discounts apply where the vendor offers them.

Compared with alternatives

How Fugu Max sits against its neighbours in this rating. Tap a card to open that model.

ERNIE 5.0
Cheaper
Baidu
$1.4 / $5.6119K tokens
Grok 4.6
Closest match
xAI
$2 / $6500K tokens
Mistral Medium 3.5
Step up
Mistral AI
$1.5 / $7.5256K tokens

Good and poor fit

Good fit
  • Multi-step analysis, planning and code review, where the first plausible answer is often wrong.
  • General text generation and conversation across languages.
Poor fit
  • Anything requiring image input — this model does not accept it.

Related filters

Text & chat234 models for text generation and chat
Reasoning175 models that think before answering
Adjustable thinking85 models with a reasoning depth dial
Tool calling172 models that call your functions
Prompt caching153 models with cheap repeated context
Sakana2 models from this vendor
All 245 modelsThe full rating with filters and prices

Frequently asked questions

How much does Fugu Max cost?

$2 / $6 per 1M tokens, input and output. In dirhams that is roughly AED 7.34 per 1M input tokens. Batch processing halves it where the vendor offers it.

What is the context window of Fugu Max?

Sakana does not publish a context window for this model.

What can Fugu Max do?

In this rating it is recorded with: text & chat, reasoning, adjustable thinking, web search grounding, tool calling, structured JSON output, prompt caching, multilingual, proprietary API.

Is Fugu Max a good choice?

It depends on the job. See the good-fit and poor-fit lists above, and compare against the neighbouring models before committing.

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