Fugu Ultra
Sakana's multi-agent answer to Fusion — frontier ensemble without single-vendor risk.
Reference benchmarks for Fugu Ultra
These are external benchmarks I pulled from the source comparison guides on agentos.guide — SWE-bench Verified, DRACO, Kilo plan rubric, build-time measurements, vendor-reported coding scores. They are not goldiebench medal scores (those come only from same-prompt one-shot creative coding tasks in the matrix). I surface them here so the spec sheet for Fugu Ultra is honest about what's measured.
What is Fugu Ultra?
Fugu Ultra is the Sakana AI frontier model with a 272,000 tokens with the standard rate. Calls exceeding 272K context are billed at the higher 'long-context' rates. context window, released 2026-06-15. Tagline: Sakana's multi-agent answer to Fusion — frontier ensemble without single-vendor risk.. Official source: sakana.ai.
Pricing detail. Sakana's multi-agent orchestration: a single API call internally dispatches to multiple frontier models and synthesises the answer. Subscription plans run $20-$200/mo (Standard / Pro / Max); PAYG is $5/M input + $30/M output for Fugu Ultra. Direct competitor to OpenRouter Fusion's panel approach.
How I use it inside the Agent OS. Dispatched from Agent OS as the panel-ensemble alternative to OpenRouter Fusion. Bench scored by Claude judge against the same 42 prompts as every other model.
What I built with Fugu Ultra
Every model on Goldie Bench gets the same fixed prompt set — one shot, single HTML file out — and I score the result 0–10 inside the Agent Operating System. Here's what Fugu Ultra shipped on the bench: 42 one-shot demos across 272,000 tokens with the standard rate. Calls exceeding 272K context are billed at the higher 'long-context' rates. of context. Of those, 42 are scored against the field with my honest 0–10 from the source guides at agentos.guide.
Strengths
- SWE Bench Pro 73.7 · GPQA-D 95.5 · MRCRv2 93.6 — Sakana's published frontier-tier benchmark scores
- Vendor-agnostic ensemble — opt out of specific providers for compliance / export-control
- OpenAI-compatible API at api.sakana.ai — drop-in for existing tooling
Trade-offs
- Panel orchestration adds latency — even a 'pong' burns ~2k orchestration tokens
- Newer than Fusion; less community calibration on long-tail prompts
Best for
- Teams that want Fusion-class quality but need a different vendor risk profile
- Operators avoiding export-controlled providers (Sakana emphasises this in their pitch)
- Deep-research workflows where ensemble verdicts beat single-model answers
Every benchmark — Fugu Ultra's full scorecard
All 42 scored tasks, best first — the judge's 0–10 on the same rubric as the whole field. Click any bar for that task's cross-model page, or open this scorecard in the interactive graphs. Full editorial breakdown with judge quotes and sourced outside research: the Fugu Ultra deep dive →.
Every demo by Fugu Ultra
42 live demos, sorted by category. Click any tile to play the actual one-shot result. Verdicts and 0–10 scores are pulled from the source guides where I posted them publicly.
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Every head-to-head featuring Fugu Ultra. Verdicts shown for scored pairs.
See all 66 comparisons across every model →
Quick pill index
Direct comparisons against every other scored model on the bench:
Fugu Ultra vs Fusion Fugu Ultra vs Claude Opus 5 Fugu Ultra vs Hermes MoA Fugu Ultra vs GPT-5.6 Sol Fugu Ultra vs Claude Fable 5 Fugu Ultra vs Qwen 3.8 Fugu Ultra vs Grok Fugu Ultra vs MiniMax M3 Fugu Ultra vs Kimi K3 Fugu Ultra vs GLM-5.2 Fugu Ultra vs Fugu Mini Fugu Ultra vs Muse Spark 1.2 Fugu Ultra vs Opus 4.8 Fugu Ultra vs Kimi K2.7 Fugu Ultra vs Qwable 5 27B Coder Fugu Ultra vs Gemini 3.6 Flash Fugu Ultra vs Claude Sonnet 5 Fugu Ultra vs Qwen 3.7 Fugu Ultra vs Fugu Ultra 1.1 Fugu Ultra vs Inkling Fugu Ultra vs Agents-A1 Fugu Ultra vs Gemma 4 12B · MLX Fugu Ultra vs Laguna XS 2.1 Fugu Ultra vs Qwythos 9B Fugu Ultra vs LongCat-2.0 Fugu Ultra vs Hy3 Fugu Ultra vs Gemma-4 12B CoderRead more on agentos.guide: /sakana-fugu-vs-fusion
Fugu Ultra — frequently asked
What is Fugu Ultra?
Fugu Ultra is Sakana AI's AI model — Sakana's multi-agent answer to Fusion — frontier ensemble without single-vendor risk. It has a 272K tokens (free) · larger via paid tier context window and was released 2026-06-15.
How good is Fugu Ultra at coding and one-shot builds?
On the GoldieBench one-shot build benchmark it averages 7.94/10 across 42 scored tasks, with 5 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.
How much does Fugu Ultra cost?
$5 / 1M input · $30 / 1M output (Fugu Ultra). Sakana's multi-agent orchestration: a single API call internally dispatches to multiple frontier models and synthesises the answer. Subscription plans run $20-$200/mo (Standard / Pro / Max); PAYG is $5/M input + $30/M ou
Where can I see Fugu Ultra demos?
Every one-shot build is live and playable on this page and on the GoldieBench compare matrix — same prompt as every other model, no retries.
Run this stack yourself.
Every demo on this bench was built inside the Agent Operating System — one prompt, one shot, single HTML file out. The Agent OS, the prompts, the templates, the weekly walkthroughs and 4,000+ founders shipping with it every day all live inside the AI Profit Boardroom.