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Meta: Muse Wonder vs Sakana: Fugu Max

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-13.

Meta: Muse Wonder Sakana: Fugu Max
Vendormetasakana
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score90.2-
Input Price$4.00/M$2.00/M
Output Price$20.00/M$6.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,000,000
Max Output943,718128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index86.4-

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Fugu Max costs $3.50 and Muse Wonder costs $9.00, so Fugu Max is about 2.6 times cheaper for the same work.

Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,048,576 and 1,000,000 tokens, about 1,573 and 1,500 pages.

Only Muse Wonder offers audio input and video input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Muse Wonder scores higher on 17 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Fugu Max on 3 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling).

Muse Wonder was released in October 2026 and Fugu Max in September 2026.

Pick Muse Wonder if you need audio input, video input or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Fugu Max if you need lower cost.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskMeta: Muse WonderSakana: Fugu Max
SQL Generation 142 133
Code Review 148 132
Code Completion 116 118
Code Refactoring 149 136
Bug Fixing 152 136
Unit Test Generation 134 124
Code Documentation 135 130
Regex Writing 123 118
CI/CD Pipelines 130 120
Frontend Component Design 132 122
Data Analysis 137 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 133
ETL Scripting 140 128
JSON Extraction 119 122
Bulk Data Labeling 114 119
OCR / Document Parsing 135 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 135 131
Long-Document Summarization 149 137
Short-Form Summarization 115 114
Blog Post Writing 130 121

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

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