Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemma 4 12B
49
Sakana Fugu Ultra
100
Pick Sakana Fugu Ultra if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 12B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Coding
+11.5 difference
Knowledge
+17.7 difference
Gemma 4 12B
Sakana Fugu Ultra
N/A
$5 / $30
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
256K
1M
Pick Sakana Fugu Ultra if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 12B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Sakana Fugu Ultra is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 100 to 49. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Sakana Fugu Ultra's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 95.5 against 77.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 72% to 93.2%.
Sakana Fugu Ultra gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 12B.
Sakana Fugu Ultra is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 100 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 72% and 93.2%.
Sakana Fugu Ultra has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 95.5 versus 77.8. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Sakana Fugu Ultra has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 83.5 versus 72. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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