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Sakana: Fugu Max

Source description (English)

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...

Overview

Model specifications

Context
1,000,000 tokens
Maximum output
128,000 tokens
Architecture
text+image+file->text
Tokenizer
Other
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
$2
per 1M tokens
Output
$6
per 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.25
per 1M tokens
Web search
$10
per 1,000 calls
API

Model configuration

Reasoning

Reasoning required
Yes
Default parameters
high
Capabilities
max, xhigh, high
API

Quick start

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY locally. Python requires requests; JavaScript runs in Node.js. Keep the key on the server.

API documentation

curl --fail-with-body https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"sakana/fugu-max","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
Capabilities

InputOutput

Input
textimagefile
Output
text
Reasoning

Yes · max · xhigh · high

API

Supported API parameters

include_reasoningreasoningreasoning_effortstructured_outputstool_choicetoolsweb_search_options
Available providers

1 Provider

Checked: September 12, 2026

Live providers on OpenRouter

Provider availability, latency, throughput and routing can change continuously. Open the source page for current operational data.

OpenRouter

Sakana AI

Not provided
Context
1M
Maximum output
128K
Input
$2
Output
$6
Cache read
$0.25
Cache write
Not provided
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