Fugu Max
by Sakana · sakana/fugu-max · #327 cheapest of 422 paid models
Prices updated Sep 19, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC · refreshed hourly
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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Pricing
Input
$2.00
per 1M tokens
Output
$6.00
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$3.00
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.25
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
—
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Fugu Max with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $3.00 | $0.21 | — |
| 50% | $2.34 | $0.1225 | −42% |
| 90% | $1.82 | $0.0525 | −75% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.0028 | $2.80 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.022 | $22.00 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.072 | $72.00 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.33 | $330.00 |
Specs
Context window
1M
tokens
Max output
128K
tokens
Input modalities
text, image, file
Tokenizer
Other