Fugu Max is a Sakana AI model that specialises in agentic. On CrapGPT a typical chat costs 0.54¢, 1.6x the median model's price, so NZ$1 buys about 184 chats. It ranks #21 of 25 for overall ability and scores highest at reasoning. Fugu Max is the cost-performance model in Sakana AI's Fugu family. Like Fugu Ultra it is not a monolithic language model but a learned…
| True cost per chat | 0.54¢ NZD |
|---|---|
| API list price | $2 input / $6 output per 1M tokens (USD) |
| Speciality | Agentic |
| Vendor | Sakana AI |
| Data sources | 1 |
Scores blend every source we can match (LMArena, Epoch AI, Artificial Analysis and CrapGPT's own tests), each converted to a percentile against the current field. Updated 2026-10-11.
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About 0.54¢ NZD per typical chat on CrapGPT, based on measured token use. The API list price is $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens (USD). There is no subscription.
You can try it with CrapGPT's free daily allowance after a one-tap Google sign-in; as a premium model it needs a top-up from NZ$3.
Its strongest category is reasoning (score 56, #22 on CrapGPT), followed by writing (54). Scores blend public benchmarks and our own tests on one 0 to 100 scale.
Ling 3.1 Flash costs 0.021¢ a chat with similar overall ability (81 vs 53).