GPT-5.6 Sol vs Fugu Mini

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 GPT-5.6 Sol and Fugu Mini, side by side, on 37 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.

GPT-5.6 Sol · Benched on GoldieBench as the flagship Sol at medium reasoning, one-shot, then headless-playtested. In the Agent OS it's the top tier of a routed stack — Sol on the hard calls, Terra for the bulk, Luna for the everyday 90%.

Fugu Mini · Dispatched from Agent OS as the fast Sakana lane. Bench scored by Claude judge against the same 42 prompts.

Where GPT-5.6 Sol beat Fugu Mini

The tasks where I gave GPT-5.6 Sol a higher 0–10 score on the same prompt — with the actual commentary from my source guides.

Where Fugu Mini beat GPT-5.6 Sol

The tasks where I gave Fugu Mini a higher 0–10 score on the same prompt — with the actual commentary from my source guides.

Strengths & weaknesses I logged

Pricing & context — the spec sheet

The verdict — which should you pick?

Across 36 scored shared tasks, GPT-5.6 Sol averaged 8.25/10, beating Fugu Mini's 7.75/10 by 0.50 points. Pick GPT-5.6 Sol 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 GPT-5.6 Sol and Fugu Mini both into the Agent Operating System and dispatch each from the kanban by task type — the hardest reasoning and code where being right beats being cheap → GPT-5.6 Sol, agent loops where latency matters more than panel consensus → Fugu Mini. That's the same setup I run for the 4,000+ founders inside the AI Profit Boardroom.

FAQ — GPT-5.6 Sol vs Fugu Mini

Which is better, GPT-5.6 Sol or Fugu Mini?

On Goldie Bench, GPT-5.6 Sol averages 8.25/10 across the shared tasks, with 11 gold, 11 silver, 7 bronze overall. Fugu Mini averages 7.75/10, with 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze. GPT-5.6 Sol wins the head-to-head 29–6.

How much does GPT-5.6 Sol cost vs Fugu Mini?

GPT-5.6 Sol: GPT-5.6 shipped as three models — Luna ($1/$6 per M), Terra ($2.50/$15) and Sol ($5/$30) — each with a same-price pro variant that ships a higher default reasoning effort. All share a ~1.05M-token context window and are rated High capability. Benched here on the flagship, Sol, at medium reasoning effort via OpenRouter. Fugu Mini: The non-Ultra `fugu` model on Sakana's API. Sakana describes it as 'Fast mini model optimized for low latency yet high quality responses.' Crucially: zero orchestration tokens per call (vs Ultra's panel of thousands). Returns in ~3 min instead of 6-15 min and doesn't time out on heavy prompts.

What's the context window for GPT-5.6 Sol vs Fugu Mini?

GPT-5.6 Sol has a 1,050,000 tokens context window. Fugu Mini has a Single-model variant of Sakana's Fugu — no panel orchestration. Same API endpoint, much faster per call. context window.

When should I pick GPT-5.6 Sol over Fugu Mini?

Pick GPT-5.6 Sol for: The hardest reasoning and code where being right beats being cheap; One-shot game/sim prototypes you want shippable on the first prompt; The flagship slot in a routed Agent OS — Sol for the hard 10%, Luna/Terra for the rest. The trade-off is the weaknesses we logged on the bench: Priciest tier on the bench at $30/M output — only worth routing the hardest 10% of work to Sol; Reasoning can eat the token budget on big open-world briefs (one 0-byte failure until the budget was raised, then it built clean).

When should I pick Fugu Mini over GPT-5.6 Sol?

Pick Fugu Mini for: Agent loops where latency matters more than panel consensus; Quick first-drafts you'll refine downstream; Filling out a bench when Ultra is timing out. The trade-off is the weaknesses we logged on the bench: Single model only — no ensemble verdict; Newer than Ultra — less calibration / verification.

How does Goldie Bench score GPT-5.6 Sol vs Fugu Mini?

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.

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