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Sakana: Fugu Max vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest

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

Sakana: Fugu Max DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest
Vendorsakana~deepseek
Quality Score10099
Input Price$2.00/M$0.03/M
Output Price$6.00/M$0.80/M
Context Window1,000,0001,310,720
Max Output128,000943,718
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
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Who wins by task?

TaskSakana: Fugu MaxDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest
SQL Generation 133 133
Code Review 132 131
Code Completion 118 131
Code Refactoring 136 135
Bug Fixing 136 135
Unit Test Generation 124 123
Code Documentation 130 131
Regex Writing 118 119
CI/CD Pipelines 120 119
Frontend Component Design 122 91
Data Analysis 124 123
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 133
ETL Scripting 128 127
JSON Extraction 122 131
Bulk Data Labeling 119 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 85
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 85
Long-Document Summarization 137 137
Short-Form Summarization 114 123
Blog Post Writing 121 121

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

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