$ diff fugu-max inkling
Fugu Max vs Inkling
Values come from Fugu Max and Inkling, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
Sakana AIFugu Max
- context
- 1M
- weights
- —
- $/M in
- $2
- $/M out
- $6
- context
- 1M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- —
- $/M out
- —
What actually differs
- Context window
- Identical — both accept 1M tokens, so context length is not a reason to pick either.
- Recency
- Fugu Max shipped 58 days after Inkling (2026-09-11 vs 2026-07-15).
Full spec
| Attribute | Fugu Max | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Sakana AI | Thinking Machines |
| Released | 2026-09-11 | 2026-07-15 |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | 1M |
| Pricing | $2/M input · $6/M output | not recorded |
| License | not recorded | Apache 2.0 (open-weight) |
| Availability | Sakana API (OpenAI-compatible), OpenRouter, NanoGPT, Kilo Gateway, LLM Gateway | Hugging Face (BF16 and NVFP4), Tinker (fine-tuning), SGLang, vLLM, llama.cpp, Unsloth |