Fugu Max vs Grok 4.6

Prices checked

Fugu Max takes 1 of 5 rounds against Grok 4.6. Both cost $3 per million tokens to run.

Sakana AIWins 1 round

Fugu Max

1M context · tool calling · reads images

$3/M tokens

Sakana AI's own price · $1.56 per 1,000 pages

xAI

Grok 4.6

500k context · tool calling · reads images

$3/M tokens

xAI's own price · $1.56 per 1,000 pages

Maker's price in (lower wins)

$2/M

$2/M

Maker's price out (lower wins)

$6/M

$6/M

Cheapest price (lower wins)

none below the maker

none below the maker

Maker's price, blended (lower wins)

$3/M

$3/M

Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)

$1.56

$1.56

Context

1M tokens

500k tokens

Open weights

not published

no

Tool calling

yes

yes

Structured output

yes

yes

Reads images

yes

yes

Reasoning

yes

yes

Released

11 Sept 2026

12 Aug 2026

Providers selling it

11

42

Price we measure against

the maker's own

the maker's own

Trains on your prompts (no is better)

no provider to check

no provider to check

Providers selling both · 8

  • NanoGPT$3 / $1.63
  • Kilo Gateway$3 / $3
  • LLM Gateway$3 / $3
  • LLMTR$3 / $3
  • Merge Gateway$3 / $3
  • Nous Portal$3 / $3
  • OpenRouter$3 / $3
  • Vercel AI Gateway$3 / $3

Fugu Max, then Grok 4.6, per million tokens.

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What moved this week

  1. Grok 4.6

    NanoGPT · 46% cheaper ·

    $2 / $0.50 $2 / $6

Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Fugu Max or Grok 4.6?
Neither: both run at $3 per million tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 31 Oct 2026.
Where is each one cheapest?
Fugu Max: nobody sells it below the maker's own price with a stated reason, so $3 is the number to beat. Grok 4.6: nobody sells it below the maker's own price with a stated reason, so $3 is the number to beat.
Can I buy both from one provider?
Yes. 8 providers sell both: NanoGPT, Kilo Gateway, LLM Gateway, LLMTR, Merge Gateway, Nous Portal, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is NanoGPT.
Which holds more context?
Fugu Max, at 1M tokens against 500k.

Prices exclude tax, read 31 Oct 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.

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