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Sakana: Fugu Max vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

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

Sakana: Fugu Max Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
Vendorsakanaqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-77.3
Input Price$2.00/M$2.00/M
Output Price$6.00/M$6.00/M
Context Window1,000,0001,000,000
Max Output128,000131,072
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-74.9

Who wins by task?

TaskSakana: Fugu MaxQwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
SQL Generation 133 142
Code Review 132 146
Code Completion 118 119
Code Refactoring 136 148
Bug Fixing 136 150
Unit Test Generation 124 133
Code Documentation 130 137
Regex Writing 118 125
CI/CD Pipelines 120 129
Frontend Component Design 122 131
Data Analysis 124 135
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 136
ETL Scripting 128 138
OCR / Document Parsing 131 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 134
Long-Document Summarization 137 149
Short-Form Summarization 114 118
Blog Post Writing 121 130

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

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