# Fugu Max API

Sakana AI's Fugu Max, through an OpenAI-compatible API. Providers quote it on an open exchange, and each request goes to the offer with the lowest estimated charge that meets your rules.

- Providers compete for each request. The exchange ranks the offers that meet your rules by estimated charge. It fixes your maximum charge before the first token, and you pay for the tokens that the model uses.
- The OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. Use the OpenAI or Anthropic SDK that you have. Set the base URL and your key, and send fugu-max as the model.
- Your data rules. Send x-liquid-retention: none and only offers whose provider does not keep your content compete for the request.

## Facts

- Model name: fugu-max
- Maker: Sakana AI
- Context window: 1M tokens
- Input price: $2.000 per million tokens
- Output price: $6.001 per million tokens
- Providers: 1 independent provider
- Regions: us

## Providers

- [Architect](https://liquidinference.ai/providers/805445a7-0e40-4c1b-9baf-7b3b01e30e42.md): us, $2.000 input and $6.001 output per million tokens, $0.250 cache read per million tokens, 1M tokens of context

## Request

```sh
curl https://router.inference.ai.exchange/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LIQUID_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "fugu-max",
    "messages": [{"role":"user","content":"Say hello."}]
  }'
```

## Questions

### What is Fugu Max?

Served by intent-router: each job goes to the cheapest healthy upstream for this model.

### How much does Fugu Max cost?

Offers now ask $2.000 per million input tokens and $6.001 per million output tokens. A job pays for the tokens it uses. The exchange picks the cheapest eligible offer.

### What is the context length of Fugu Max?

The largest offer takes 1,000,000 input tokens. A smaller offer can take less. The exchange skips an offer that cannot take your message.

### What can Fugu Max do?

Its providers list Documents, Vision, Reasoning effort, JSON object, JSON schema, Frequency penalty, Logit bias, Log probabilities, Min-p sampling, Presence penalty, Repetition penalty, Seed, Stop sequences, Top-k sampling, Top-p sampling, Text, Tools.

### What inputs and outputs does Fugu Max support?

Text · Files · Images → Text.

### Which providers serve Fugu Max?

1 independent provider quote it now, with 1 offer. The table above ranks them by the cost of a typical job.

### How do I call Fugu Max?

Send "fugu-max" as the model in an OpenAI or Anthropic request. The API section links to setup steps for each client.

### When was Fugu Max listed?

The exchange first listed it on 10/8/2026. This is not its release date.

## Related pages

- [This page in a browser](https://liquidinference.ai/models/fugu-max)
- [Fugu Ultra](https://liquidinference.ai/models/fugu-ultra.md)
- [Fugu: Ultra V1.1](https://liquidinference.ai/models/fugu-ultra-v1.1.md)
- [Set up a client](https://liquidinference.ai/connect/fugu-max)
- [All models](https://liquidinference.ai/models)
- [Providers](https://liquidinference.ai/providers.md)
- [Discover the best model for your budget](https://liquidinference.ai/discover)
- [Quickstart](https://liquidinference.ai/docs/quickstart.md)
- [llms.txt: the index of every page, as Markdown](https://liquidinference.ai/llms.txt)
- [llms-full.txt: every page in one file](https://liquidinference.ai/llms-full.txt)