Fugu Ultra v2 is the higher-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 tasks across a fixed pool of open and specialized models and to recursively call instances of itself.
Fugu Ultra v2 prioritizes answer quality on complex multi-step reasoning, autonomous research, and full-stack software development, and does not rely on individual proprietary frontier models in its pool. It supports configurable reasoning effort (high, xhigh, max), function calling, structured outputs, image and PDF input, and built-in web search. Prompts above 272K tokens are billed at a higher rate. Orchestration tokens consumed by the system are billed as standard input/output tokens.
Modalities
In / Out Price
$5 / $30per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Sep 11, 2026
Knowledge Cutoff
Aug 2026
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Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
| $5.00 | $30.00 | $0.50 | 11.44s | 57 tps |
Throughput
57tok/s
P50, best across providers
Latency
11.44s
P50, best provider
100.00%
89.43%
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.
Fugu Ultra v2 is the higher-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 tasks across a fixed pool of open and specialized models and to recursively call instances of itself.
Fugu Ultra v2 costs $5.00/M input tokens and $30.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.50/M tokens and Web Search at $10.00/1K calls.
Fugu Ultra v2 has a 1,000,000 token context window. It supports up to 128,000 completion tokens.
Yes. Fugu Ultra v2 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
Fugu Ultra v2 accepts text, images and files such as PDFs as input and returns text.
Fugu Max, Sakana Namazu and Fugu Ultra are other text models from Sakana.
Fugu Ultra v2 was released on September 11, 2026. Its knowledge cutoff is August 28, 2026.