
Real head-to-head · same prompt, one shot
Fugu Ultra vs Qwen 3.7
Sakana's multi-agent answer to Fusion — frontier ensemble without single-vendor risk. vs Multilingual open-weights — strong on Chinese reasoning.
Head-to-head verdict: Fugu Ultra wins 34–6 with 2 ties.
What I tested — same prompt, two models
I run the same fixed prompt set through every new model the day it drops — same string, one shot, single HTML file out — and I score the result 0–10 on whether it ran, how close it hit the brief, and how good it looked. Below is what came out when I gave the exact same prompts to Fugu Ultra and Qwen 3.7, side by side, on 42 shared tasks inside the Agent Operating System.
Both models were given identical prompts inside the Agent Operating System — no help, no iteration, no "best of N" tricks. I run each prompt once, save the HTML file the model produces, and score it 0–10 on whether it ran, how close it hit the brief, and how good it looked. The scoring is mine. The verdicts below are pulled from my source comparison guides at agentos.guide where I publish every score and the reasoning behind it.
Fugu Ultra · 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.
Qwen 3.7 · Wired alongside GLM-5.2 in Agent OS for open-weights agent loops where you want vendor diversity.
Side-by-side on 47 shared tasks
Click any cell to play that model's actual one-shot attempt. Medals are derived from my 0–10 scores per task (highest = 🥇, second = 🥈, third = 🥉).
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Qwen 3.7
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Where Fugu Ultra beat Qwen 3.7
The tasks where I gave Fugu Ultra a higher 0–10 score on the same prompt — with the actual commentary from my source guides.
Raycaster
Game
Fugu Ultra 8.5
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Qwen 3.7 4.0
(+4.5)
What I saw: 26KB canvas raycaster with WASD + mouse-look + distance fog + weapon bob. Clean implementation, comparable to Fusion's 17KB on the same prompt. ~$0.35 per call — roughly 1/4 the cost of Fusion.
Reactiondiff
Sim
Fugu Ultra 8.0
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Qwen 3.7 5.0
(+3.0)
What I saw: Ultra v2 — Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion. Smoke-test PASS.
Galaxy
Sim
Fugu Ultra 8.5
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Qwen 3.7 6.0
(+2.5)
What I saw: 26KB three.js spiral galaxy with drag-to-orbit + dust lanes + bloom. Comparable visual quality to Fusion's 14KB attempt with more polish on the camera UI. ~$0.24 per call.
Synthwave
Visual
Fugu Ultra 8.5
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Qwen 3.7 6.0
(+2.5)
What I saw: Ultra v2 — synthwave terrain flythrough. Smoke-test PASS (4.3% pixel diff).
Fractal
Sim
Fugu Ultra 8.0
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Qwen 3.7 6.0
(+2.0)
What I saw: Ultra v2 — Mandelbrot zoom. Smoke-test PASS.
Where Qwen 3.7 beat Fugu Ultra
The tasks where I gave Qwen 3.7 a higher 0–10 score on the same prompt — with the actual commentary from my source guides.
Neonblaster
Game
Qwen 3.7 8.0
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Fugu Ultra 6.5
(+1.5)
What I saw: 21KB · plays clean · webgl, audio, input
Arcade
Game
Qwen 3.7 8.0
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Fugu Ultra 7.0
(+1.0)
What I saw: The closest test. All three shipped a real, juicy game. Opus's breakout had the most game-feel (particle bursts + live combo). Qwen's neon breakout is clean and vibrant. GLM went its own way with fullscreen asteroids. Genuinely hard to separate.
Wormhole
Sim
Qwen 3.7 8.0
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Fugu Ultra 7.0
(+1.0)
What I saw: 7KB · plays clean · webgl, input, rAF
Crypt
Game
Qwen 3.7 7.5
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Fugu Ultra 7.0
(+0.5)
What I saw: 13KB · plays clean · webgl, input
Dogfight
Game
Qwen 3.7 7.5
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Fugu Ultra 7.0
(+0.5)
What I saw: 18KB · plays clean · webgl, input
Strengths & weaknesses I logged
Fugu Ultra
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
Qwen 3.7
Strengths
- Open weights, free for individuals — same model class as GLM-5.2
- Best-of-three on fluid simulation in the Goldie Bench bench
- Multilingual depth — Chinese reasoning especially strong
Trade-offs
- Only 5 tasks scored on the bench so far — small sample size
- Trails GLM-5.2 on cinematic visual builds at similar pricing
Pricing & context — the spec sheet
| Spec | Fugu Ultra | Qwen 3.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Sakana AI | Alibaba |
| Context window | 272,000 tokens with the standard rate. Calls exceeding 272K context are billed at the higher 'long-context' rates. | 256,000 tokens |
| Price | $5 / 1M input · $30 / 1M output (Fugu Ultra) | Open weights · free for individuals |
| 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. | Alibaba's open-weights release — downloadable from Hugging Face, runnable locally or via Alibaba Cloud's free tier for individuals. |
| Release | 2026-06-15 | 2026-06 |
| Bench coverage | 42/42 scored · avg 7.94/10 | 47/47 scored · avg 7.00/10 |
The verdict — which should you pick?
Across 42 scored shared tasks, Fugu Ultra averaged 7.94/10, beating Qwen 3.7's 6.93/10 by 1.01 points. Pick Fugu Ultra when the build has to ship on the first prompt and you can afford the trade-offs in the comparison below.
If you only run one of these inside your stack, the head-to-head average above is the call. If you can run both, my honest play is to wire Fugu Ultra and Qwen 3.7 both into the Agent Operating System and dispatch each from the kanban by task type — teams that want fusion-class quality but need a different vendor risk profile → Fugu Ultra, open-weights alternative to glm-5.2 when you want a different model family → Qwen 3.7. That's the same setup I run for the 4,000+ founders inside the AI Profit Boardroom.
FAQ — Fugu Ultra vs Qwen 3.7
Which is better, Fugu Ultra or Qwen 3.7?
On Goldie Bench, Fugu Ultra averages 7.94/10 across the shared tasks, with 5 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze overall. Qwen 3.7 averages 6.93/10, with 0 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze. Fugu Ultra wins the head-to-head 34–6.
How much does Fugu Ultra cost vs Qwen 3.7?
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 output for Fugu Ultra. Direct competitor to OpenRouter Fusion's panel approach. Qwen 3.7: Alibaba's open-weights release — downloadable from Hugging Face, runnable locally or via Alibaba Cloud's free tier for individuals.
What's the context window for Fugu Ultra vs Qwen 3.7?
Fugu Ultra has a 272,000 tokens with the standard rate. Calls exceeding 272K context are billed at the higher 'long-context' rates. context window. Qwen 3.7 has a 256,000 tokens context window.
When should I pick Fugu Ultra over Qwen 3.7?
Pick Fugu Ultra 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. The trade-off is the weaknesses we logged on the bench: Panel orchestration adds latency — even a 'pong' burns ~2k orchestration tokens; Newer than Fusion; less community calibration on long-tail prompts.
When should I pick Qwen 3.7 over Fugu Ultra?
Pick Qwen 3.7 for: Open-weights alternative to GLM-5.2 when you want a different model family; Multilingual workloads (Chinese, multi-script content); Fluid and particle simulations. The trade-off is the weaknesses we logged on the bench: Only 5 tasks scored on the bench so far — small sample size; Trails GLM-5.2 on cinematic visual builds at similar pricing.
How does Goldie Bench score Fugu Ultra vs Qwen 3.7?
Every demo on this page was built by Julian Goldie inside the Agent Operating System — same fixed prompt for both models, one shot, single HTML file out. Each result gets a 0–10 score on whether it ran, how close it hit the brief, and how good it looked. The highest score on each task gets gold; second gets silver; third gets bronze. See methodology for full provenance.
Related comparisons
Other head-to-heads using the same scoring system:
Fugu Ultra vs Fusion Qwen 3.7 vs Fusion Fugu Ultra vs Claude Opus 5 Qwen 3.7 vs Claude Opus 5 Fugu Ultra vs Hermes MoA Qwen 3.7 vs Hermes MoA Fugu Ultra vs GPT-5.6 Sol Qwen 3.7 vs GPT-5.6 SolFull model pages: Fugu Ultra · Qwen 3.7 · back to the leaderboard
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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.
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