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Sakana: Fugu Max vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

Sakana: Fugu Max Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash
Vendorsakanaqwen
Quality Score100100
Input Price$2.00/M$0.03/M
Output Price$6.00/M$0.13/M
Context Window1,000,0001,000,000
Max Output128,00065,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.7 Flash costs $0.062 and Fugu Max costs $3.50, so Qwen3.7 Flash is about 56.0 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text.

Only Qwen3.7 Flash offers video input.

Across the 10 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.7 Flash on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).

Fugu Max was released in September 2026 and Qwen3.7 Flash in July 2026.

Pick Qwen3.7 Flash if you need lower cost, video input 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?

TaskSakana: Fugu MaxQwen: Qwen3.7 Flash
SQL Generation 133 134
Code Completion 118 132
Code Documentation 130 132
Regex Writing 118 120
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 134
JSON Extraction 122 132
Bulk Data Labeling 119 130
Long-Document Summarization 137 138
Short-Form Summarization 114 124
Blog Post Writing 121 122

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

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