# Sakana AI — Introducing Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2: Orchestrating the Pareto Frontier

- Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai)
- Announced: 2026-09-10T15:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://sakana.ai/fugu-max-release
- Record: https://forck.live/items/10072-introducing-fugu-max-and-fugu-ultra-v2-orchestrating-the-pareto-frontier
- Subject: Sakana models
- Models affected: Fugu Max, Fugu Ultra v2
- Pricing: $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens

Sakana AI released Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, two orchestration architectures that optimize cost and capability. Fugu Max achieves frontier-grade results at two to six times lower cost than elite models, while Fugu Ultra v2 sets new benchmarks on complex multi-step tasks without relying on proprietary frontier models.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://sakana.ai/fugu-max-release:

> We are releasing Fugu Max, which expands the Pareto Efficiency Frontier by orchestrating our largest pool of open and specialized models to date. And we are releasing Fugu Ultra v2, which pushes peak performance higher than ever before, without the indispensable reliance on the frontier models it orchestrates.

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