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...
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Sakana: Fugu Max holds the #104 spot for context size out of 426 chat models in the CoreAI catalog — 1M tokens, roughly 750,000 words or 1,500 pages of text in a single conversation. On price, it is the #175 cheapest of 201 standard-tier models by input cost. Released 2026-09-11, it is one of the 6 newest additions to the catalog. It supports step-by-step reasoning (thinking mode) and accepts image input.
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A typical question (about 1,000 tokens in, 500 out) runs $0.00500 on Sakana: Fugu Max's raw per-token rates; a heavy session with a 50K-token document costs about $0.130. On CoreAI you don't juggle these numbers — one subscription covers Sakana: Fugu Max and 300+ other models under a plan usage limit, with no API keys. See plans.
Sakana: Fugu Max handles 1M tokens of context — roughly 750,000 words, or about 1,500 pages of text in one conversation.
Sakana: Fugu Max's underlying rates are $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens. On CoreAI it is included in one subscription alongside 300+ models, so there is no per-token billing to manage.
Yes — Sakana: Fugu Max accepts image input, so you can attach screenshots, photos or diagrams and ask questions about them.
Yes. Sakana: Fugu Max can work through problems step by step before answering; on CoreAI you can toggle thinking mode per message.
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The closest alternatives on CoreAI are Sakana: Sakana Namazu, Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902), inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash — similar tier and capability. The fastest way to choose is running one prompt through them side by side in CoreAI's Compare view.
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