Sakana: Fugu Max vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Sakana: Fugu Max | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | sakana | anthropic |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $2.50/M |
| Output Price | $6.00/M | $12.50/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Fugu Max costs $3.50 and Claude Opus 5 (batch) costs $5.62, so Fugu Max is about 1.6 times cheaper for the same work.
Both read up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text.
Across the 10 tasks where they differ, Fugu Max scores higher on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).
Fugu Max was released in September 2026 and Claude Opus 5 (batch) in July 2026.
Pick Fugu Max if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Sakana: Fugu Max | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 118 | 117 |
| Code Documentation | 130 | 129 |
| Regex Writing | 118 | 117 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 132 |
| JSON Extraction | 122 | 121 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 119 | 117 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 136 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 114 | 113 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 120 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →