Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s strongest model for coding and long-running professional tasks. It is built for agents that operate across entire workflows rather than single prompts, making it especially effective...
Model details →Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) vs Sakana: Fugu Max
Sakana: Fugu Max wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Fugu Max is the cost-performance model in Sakana AI's Fugu family. Rather than a single monolithic model, Fugu is a learned multi-agent orchestration system: a language model trained to route...
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) | Sakana: Fugu Max | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1M | 1M | Tie |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $2.50 | $2.00 | 🏆 Sakana: Fugu Max |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $12.50 | $6.00 | 🏆 Sakana: Fugu Max |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) better than Sakana: Fugu Max?
Sakana: Fugu Max wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) and Sakana: Fugu Max?
Input: $2.50 vs $2.00 per 1M tokens. Output: $12.50 vs $6.00 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) and Sakana: Fugu Max support?
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) supports up to 1M tokens. Sakana: Fugu Max supports up to 1M tokens.
Do both Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) and Sakana: Fugu Max support tool calling?
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (batch): yes. Sakana: Fugu Max: yes.