Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Ornith-1.0-35B
67
Sakana Fugu Ultra
100
Pick Sakana Fugu Ultra if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ornith-1.0-35B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.
Agentic
+17.9 difference
Ornith-1.0-35B
Sakana Fugu Ultra
$0 / $0
$5 / $30
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
262K
1M
Pick Sakana Fugu Ultra if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ornith-1.0-35B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.
Sakana Fugu Ultra is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 100 to 67. 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 agentic, where it averages 82.1 against 64.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 64.2% to 82.1%.
Sakana Fugu Ultra is also the more expensive model on tokens at $5.00 input / $30.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ornith-1.0-35B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Sakana Fugu Ultra gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Ornith-1.0-35B.
Sakana Fugu Ultra is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 100 to 67. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 64.2% and 82.1%.
Sakana Fugu Ultra has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 64.2. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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