Fugu Max pricing & price history
Fugu Max by Sakana costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window.
Price history
No price changes since tracking began on 2026-09-24. We check every 10 minutes.
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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...
FAQ
How much does Fugu Max cost?
Fugu Max by Sakana costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.007.
What is the context window of Fugu Max?
Fugu Max supports up to 1,000,000 tokens of context and up to 128,000 output tokens per request.
Has Fugu Max’s price changed?
No price changes recorded since ModelBank started tracking it on 2026-09-24.
Is Fugu Max being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for Fugu Max as of 2026-11-12.
What are cheaper alternatives to Fugu Max?
Cheaper options include GLM 5.3 Flash ($0.0399/$0.0784), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.022/$0.40), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ($0.098/$0.29), Llama 4 Scout ($0.10/$0.30).