sakana · Frontier
Fugu Ultra v1.1
Sakana AI's upgraded Fugu Ultra release with stronger coding, agentic task execution, and advanced reasoning through dynamic orchestration of frontier models.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- high · xhigh · max
- Discovery tier
- Frontier
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $5.00
- Output
- $30.00
- Cache read
- $0.50
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 16.4K
Side by side
Fugu Ultra v1.1 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Fugu Ultra v1.1sakanaThis model | Kimi K3.1 Pro HighspeedMoonshotRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | sakana | Moonshot |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Frontier |
| Added | Jul 24, 2026 | Oct 24, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1M | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 16.38K | — |
| Average output | — | 1.3K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $5.00 | $4.00Best |
| Output | $30.00 | $20.00Best |
| Cache read | $0.50 | $0.20Best |
| Cache write | — | $4.00 |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | — | 99.8% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | — | 55.1 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | high, xhigh, max | low, high, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Fugu Ultra v1.1
- Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed
Intelligence Index
- Fugu Ultra v1.1—
- Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed55.1
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Fugu Ultra v1.1: —
- Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed: 73.3%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Fugu Ultra v1.1: —
- Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed: 46.0%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Fugu Ultra v1.1: —
- Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed: 1,678 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Fugu Ultra v1.1: —
- Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed: 1,846 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Fugu Ultra v1.1: —
- Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed: 31.4%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Fugu Ultra v1.1: —
- Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed: 86.3%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Fugu Ultra v1.1: —
- Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed: 52.5%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Fugu Ultra v1.1: —
- Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed: 67.2%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Fugu Ultra v1.1: —
- Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed: 60.8%
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Fugu Ultra v1.1: —
- Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed: 86.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Fugu Ultra v1.1
- Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed
| Leaderboard | Fugu Ultra v1.1 | Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed |
|---|---|---|
| Combined | Not in top 20 | #9 · 19.9% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Combined leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "sakana/fugu-ultra-v1.1",
"reasoning_effort": "high",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="sakana/fugu-ultra-v1.1",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)sakana
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