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Sakana's Fugu Max sells a model that hands your request to other models, at $2 per million tokens in News
Sakana AI launched Fugu Max on 11 September 2026, a model trained to route each task to a pool of open-weight and specialist models and combine the results, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; the pool is not published and all quality claims are Sakana's own.
Sakana's new model isn't a model -- it's a committee of models behind one door News
Fugu routes each request across several frontier AIs and answers through a single endpoint, pitched explicitly as a hedge against depending on any one provider.
Sakana Fugu Ultra v2 Tool
The higher-priced sibling of Fugu Max, also released 11 September, at $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens (rising above 272,000 tokens of context). Sakana says Claude Fable 5, Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra are not in its model pool. Available through OpenRouter as sakana/fugu-ultra-v2.
Sakana Fugu Max Tool
Launched 11 September: a model trained to split each request across a pool of other models and combine the answers, sold as one OpenAI-compatible API at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with a 1 million token context. The pool is not published beyond NVIDIA's Nemotron family, all quality claims are Sakana's own, and it is not yet available in the EU or EEA. Listed on OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway.