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Fugu Ultra

sakana·sakana/fugu-ultra·GA·Closed·fugu series
Quality-first multi-agent model for hard research, analysis, and competitions

Fugu Ultra by sakana is offered by 12 providers on this page. Its official list price is $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $30.00 per 1M output tokens.

The context window is 1,000,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 1,000,000 to 1,048,576, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text and Image.

Specs & pricing

Input / output per 1M tokens
Official price·Sakana AI
$5.00 / $30.00
Blended $11.25 · Cache read $0.50
Lowest paid·NanoGPTGateway
$5.00 / $30.00
Blended $11.25 · 1× spread
Context
1,000,000
Output limit
1,000,000
Knowledge cutoff
—
Released / updated
2026-06-15 / 2026-06-15
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured outputTemperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
TextImage
References
Official model catalog

Available at 12 providers12 with public prices

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
NanoGPTGateway$5.00$30.00$0.50—1,000,00016,384
Kilo GatewayGateway$5.00$30.00$0.50—1,000,000128,000
OpenRouterGateway$5.00
tiered >272K: $10.00
$30.00$0.50—1,000,000128,000
LLMTRGateway$5.00$30.00——1,000,0001,000,000
Vercel AI GatewayCloud$5.00
tiered >272K: $10.00
$30.00$0.50—1,000,0001,000,000
Sakana AIOfficialFirst-party$5.00
tiered >272K: $10.00
$30.00$0.50—1,000,0001,000,000
Sakana AIOfficial
fugu-ultra-20260615
First-party$5.00
tiered >272K: $10.00
$30.00$0.50—1,000,0001,000,000
Merge GatewayGateway$5.00$30.00$0.50—1,000,000128,000
PioneerGateway$5.00$30.00$0.50$5.001,000,000131,072
RequestyGateway$5.00
tiered >272K: $10.00
$30.00$0.50—1,048,576 ⚠131,072
DevPass (LLM Gateway)Gateway$5.00$30.00$0.50—1,000,0001,000,000
LLM GatewayGateway$5.00$30.00$0.50—1,000,0001,000,000

Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.

Reasoning control

effort = higheffort = xhigheffort = maxeffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = none

Interleaved thinking (reasoning between tool calls) is declared by 1 of 12 providers.

Your usage cost

1NanoGPT$1,960.00
2Kilo Gateway$1,960.00
3OpenRouter$1,960.00
4Vercel AI Gateway$1,960.00
5Sakana AI · Official$1,960.00
6Sakana AI · Official$1,960.00
Switch to NanoGPT to save $0/mo (0%). The gap is small, so staying on the official channel is fine.
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.

Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input listOutput listMin blended
$30.00$02026-08-052026-08-282026-08-05 · Input list $5.002026-08-06 · Input list $5.002026-08-07 · Input list $5.002026-08-08 · Input list $5.002026-08-09 · Input list $5.002026-08-10 · Input list $5.002026-08-11 · Input list $5.002026-08-12 · Input list $5.002026-08-13 · Input list $5.002026-08-21 · Input list $5.002026-08-28 · Input list $5.002026-08-05 · Output list $30.002026-08-06 · Output list $30.002026-08-07 · Output list $30.002026-08-08 · Output list $30.002026-08-09 · Output list $30.002026-08-10 · Output list $30.002026-08-11 · Output list $30.002026-08-12 · Output list $30.002026-08-13 · Output list $30.002026-08-21 · Output list $30.002026-08-28 · Output list $30.002026-08-05 · Min blended $11.252026-08-06 · Min blended $11.252026-08-07 · Min blended $11.252026-08-08 · Min blended $11.252026-08-09 · Min blended $11.252026-08-10 · Min blended $11.252026-08-11 · Min blended $11.252026-08-12 · Min blended $11.252026-08-13 · Min blended $11.252026-08-21 · Min blended $10.132026-08-28 · Min blended $11.25

Benchmark12 items

NameConditionsScoreMetricSource
SWE Bench Pro—73.7—Source ↗
Terminal Bench 2.1—82.1—Source ↗
LiveCodeBench—93.2—Source ↗
LiveCodeBench Pro—90.8—Source ↗
Humanity’s Last Exam—50—Source ↗
CharXiv Reasoning—86.6—Source ↗
GPQA Diamond—95.5—Source ↗
SciCode—58.7—Source ↗
τ3 Banking—20.6—Source ↗
Long Context Reasoning—73.3—Source ↗
MRCRv2—93.6—Source ↗
CTI-REALM—69.4—Source ↗

The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.

Related models

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Data partly from models.dev (MIT) · Sakana AI official docs ↗