Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
76
Sakana Fugu Ultra
100
Pick Sakana Fugu Ultra if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.
Coding
+5.9 difference
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
Sakana Fugu Ultra
$1.5 / $7.5
$5 / $30
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
256K
1M
Pick Sakana Fugu Ultra if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.
Sakana Fugu Ultra is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 100 to 76. 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 coding, where it averages 83.5 against 77.6.
Sakana Fugu Ultra is also the more expensive model on tokens at $5.00 input / $30.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $1.50 input / $7.50 output per 1M tokens for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B. That is roughly 4.0x on output cost alone. Sakana Fugu Ultra gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B.
Sakana Fugu Ultra is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 100 to 76.
Sakana Fugu Ultra has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 83.5 versus 77.6. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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