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Fugu Ultra pricing

$5.00 per 1M input tokens and $30.00 per 1M output tokens. In real work that is 5.3¢ per chat answer and 11¢ to summarize a 20-page PDF.

Input / 1M$5.00
Output / 1M$30.00
Cached input / 1M$0.50
Chat answer5.3¢
Context1M
Quality-

What Fugu Ultra costs per task

Token counts estimated from a measured model of the same lab (Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview), rescaled by tokenizer. Reasoning tokens are billed as output.

TaskCostTokens usedPrice rankBasis
Answer a chat question
5.3¢$53.48 / 1,000
35 in · 915 out · 862 reasoning326 of 336estimated
Reply to a customer email
2.4¢$24.30 / 1,000
271 in · 128 out · 637 reasoning327 of 336estimated
Write a 1,500-word blog post
12¢$124 / 1,000
52 in · 2,522 out · 1,606 reasoning323 of 336estimated
Write 10 product descriptions
9.8¢$97.86 / 1,000
293 in · 1,229 out · 1,984 reasoning320 of 336estimated
Translate 1,000 words
27¢$271 / 1,000
1,308 in · 1,332 out · 7,494 reasoning332 of 336estimated
Proofread one page (500 words)
8.9¢$89.45 / 1,000
706 in · 653 out · 2,211 reasoning330 of 336estimated
Summarize a 20-page PDF
11¢$114 / 1,000
12,741 in · 611 out · 1,079 reasoning321 of 336estimated
Extract data from an invoice
8.0¢$79.84 / 1,000
452 in · 533 out · 2,053 reasoning331 of 336estimated
Analyze a 200-row spreadsheet
19¢$189 / 1,000
6,304 in · 882 out · 4,358 reasoning303 of 336estimated
Answer from 5 retrieved documents (RAG)
8.3¢$83.38 / 1,000
3,608 in · 599 out · 1,579 reasoning325 of 336estimated
Classify 100 support tickets
24¢$236 / 1,000
1,397 in · 565 out · 7,062 reasoning334 of 336estimated
Review 500 lines of code
28¢$285 / 1,000
5,207 in · 1,368 out · 7,256 reasoning320 of 336estimated
Write a SQL query
7.9¢$78.77 / 1,000
135 in · 620 out · 1,983 reasoning330 of 336estimated
Run a 50-step coding agent
$4.87$4,873 / 1,000
2,194,987 in · 14,715 out · 99,150 reasoning315 of 336modeled

Price at every provider

List prices per 1M tokens (input / output) at each host serving Fugu Ultra through OpenRouter today. Hosts can differ in quantization, context and speed.

ProviderInput / outputCached inputContextUptime
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Sakana AIunknown
$5.00 / $30.00$0.501M

Price history

First seen in our price history on Jun 27, 2026 at $5.00 input / $30.00 output. The list price has not changed since.

$0$8.62$17.25$25.88$34.50Jun 2026Jul 2026Aug 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Output per 1MInput per 1M

FAQ

How much does Fugu Ultra cost?

Fugu Ultra costs $5.00 per 1 million input tokens and $30.00 per 1 million output tokens, with cached input at $0.50 (list price on Oct 18, 2026). In practice one chat answer costs about 5.3¢ and summarizing a 20-page PDF about 11¢.

Where is Fugu Ultra cheapest?

Among 1 providers we track, the lowest list price today is at Sakana AI: $5.00 input and $30.00 output per 1M tokens.

Does Fugu Ultra charge for reasoning tokens?

Yes. Reasoning (thinking) tokens are billed as output tokens. That is why the cost per task can be much higher than the visible answer suggests - our task costs include them.

Is the Fugu Ultra cost per task measured or estimated?

Estimated: Fugu Ultra was not run directly. Tokens come from Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and are rescaled by the tokenizer of Sakana. Real usage can differ.