# Sakana AI Splits Its Router Into a Cheap Tier and a Capability Tier

Fugu Max prices at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens by routing work to the smallest model capable of handling it, including NVIDIA Nemotron open-weight models.

- Published: 2026-09-12T06:23:24.914Z
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- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: world
- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [Sakana AI](https://sakana.ai/fugu-max-release/), [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/10/sakana-ai-launches-fugu-max-and-fugu-ultra-v2-for-cheaper-stronger-multi-agent-orchestration/)

Sakana AI has released Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, two configurations of the same orchestration architecture built for different priorities. Fugu is not a foundation model. It is a learned router that breaks a request into pieces, assigns e…

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