Model Detail

Sakana: Fugu Ultra v2 is a multimodal model released by Sakana. And supports text+image+file->text inputs.

Sakana: Fugu Ultra v2 is priced at $5/M input tokens and $30/M output tokens. Operationally the model offers a 1000K-token context window, which matters when sizing it for prompt-heavy or latency-sensitive workloads. This is frontier pricing, so cost-fit usually depends on whether the per-call quality justifies running a smaller commodity model two or three times to compare.

The published knowledge cutoff is 2026-08-28, so newer events will not be reflected in zero-shot answers without retrieval.

Sakana: Fugu Ultra v2 is best fit for mixed text-and-image reasoning tasks such as document understanding, and long-context tasks such as full-codebase analysis or book-length summarization (1000K tokens). It is a less obvious choice for cost-sensitive batch processing where a commodity-tier model could be retried cheaply. Treat this as a starting matrix rather than a benchmark verdict — the right deployment usually depends on the specific evaluation suite that mirrors your workload.