Sakana: Fugu Max API
Other·Vision
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...
Pricing
Cheapest live price, per 1 million tokens.
Input / 1M tokens
$2.00 OpenRouter
Output / 1M tokens
$6.00 OpenRouter
Cache read / 1M
Repeated prompt prefixes
Cache read is the discounted rate for repeated prompt prefixes (system prompts, agent context).
Capabilities · 10
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 128K
- Type
- Vision
- Creator
- Other
- Live sellers
- 4
- Requests / 24h
- 47
Price history · 60 days
Estimated monthly cost
30 days at the cheapest live price.
Quick start
OpenAI-compatible — change the base URL and key. Get a key from the dashboard.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.qubax.ai/v1",
api_key="YOUR_QUBAX_API_KEY",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="fugu-max",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About Sakana: Fugu Max
Sakana: Fugu Max is a multimodal language model developed by Other. It's particularly well-suited for analyzing images, screenshots, and visual content, tackling complex, multi-step reasoning problems, orchestrating tool-using agents that call APIs and external services, grounding responses in real-time web search results, producing structured outputs for reliable data extraction and handling large contexts of up to 1M tokens. Its 1M-token context window means you can pass in entire documents, codebases, or conversation histories without losing context. It can write up to 128K tokens in a single response.
As of Oct 28, 2026, Sakana: Fugu Max costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $4.50 per 1M output tokens on Qubax, versus $2.00 / $6.00 on OpenRouter (25% less on input). A typical 1,000 chat requests (2K tokens in, 500 out) come to about $5.25. 4 independent compute providers currently serve it, so requests fail over automatically. Pay with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH or 350+ other coins — no credit card required.
Similar-priced alternatives
Frequently asked questions
How much does the Sakana: Fugu Max API cost?
On Qubax, Sakana: Fugu Max costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $4.50 per 1M output tokens. This is 25% cheaper than OpenRouter's price of $2.00 per 1M input tokens.
Is the Sakana: Fugu Max API compatible with OpenAI?
Yes. Qubax provides an OpenAI-compatible API. You can use Sakana: Fugu Max as a drop-in replacement by changing your base URL to https://api.qubax.ai/v1 and using your Qubax API key. It works with Cline, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, and any tool that supports OpenAI APIs.
Why is Sakana: Fugu Max cheaper on Qubax than OpenRouter?
Qubax sources AI inference from an open compute marketplace on the Base blockchain where GPU providers compete on price. We pass the savings to you — 25% cheaper than OpenRouter's price for Sakana: Fugu Max.
How do I pay for Sakana: Fugu Max API usage?
Qubax uses prepaid crypto credits. Top up with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL or 350+ other coins and your balance is deducted as you use the API. No credit card or KYC required.
What is the context window of Sakana: Fugu Max?
Sakana: Fugu Max supports a context window of 1M tokens, allowing you to process large documents, codebases, or long conversations in a single request.
What can I build with Sakana: Fugu Max?
You can use Sakana: Fugu Max to analyze images and visual content, tackle complex multi-step reasoning tasks, build autonomous agents that call external tools and APIs, answer questions with real-time web search, generate structured JSON output for data pipelines and process long documents and entire codebases. Because it's served through Qubax's OpenAI-compatible API, integration into existing apps, agents, or workflows takes just a few lines of code.
How fast and reliable is Sakana: Fugu Max on Qubax?
Responses stream token by token. 4 sellers serve it, so if one is slow or down the request moves to the next.
Sakana: Fugu Max vs Claude Opus 5: which should I choose?
Sakana: Fugu Max by Other and Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic are both strong models in a similar price tier. Sakana: Fugu Max excels at complex reasoning and supports vision/image inputs. Claude Opus 5 comes from a different lab and may have different strengths depending on your workload. On Qubax, Sakana: Fugu Max starts at $1.50/1M input tokens while Claude Opus 5 comes in at $0.975/1M, so Claude Opus 5 may be worth considering if you need to minimize per-token cost. Both are available on Qubax with crypto payments and OpenAI-compatible APIs, so you can try each and switch freely.
Can I use Sakana: Fugu Max for commercial projects?
Yes. Sakana: Fugu Max on Qubax can be used for commercial purposes. You own the outputs you generate. Qubax provides the API infrastructure — you bring your use case.
Why use Sakana: Fugu Max on Qubax?
25% cheaper
Providers compete on price — you get the cheapest healthy seller.
Pay with crypto
350+ coins (BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC). No card, no KYC.
OpenAI & Anthropic compatible
Drop-in base URL. Works with Cline, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs.
