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DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest vs Sakana: Fugu Max

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest Sakana: Fugu Max
Vendor~deepseeksakana
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.10/M$2.00/M
Output Price$0.49/M$6.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,000,000
Max Output943,718128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Who wins by task?

TaskDeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash LatestSakana: Fugu Max
SQL Generation 133 133
Code Completion 131 118
Code Documentation 131 130
Regex Writing 119 118
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 133
JSON Extraction 131 122
Bulk Data Labeling 129 119
Long-Document Summarization 137 137
Short-Form Summarization 123 114
Blog Post Writing 121 121

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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