# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Sakana Fugu

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.8 and Sakana Fugu across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-8-vs-sakana-fugu
- Last updated: September 27, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.8 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Sakana Fugu only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 4.8 leads overall 70.46 to 65.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 87.7 for Claude Opus 4.8 and 68.6 for Sakana Fugu.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE-bench Pro in Coding, with scores of 69.2% and 59%.
- Sakana Fugu is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.8 | Sakana Fugu |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Sakana AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 70.46 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 38 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 61.3 (Supported · #13/105)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 21.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 74.6% | 80.2% | Sakana Fugu |
| BrowseComp | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 93.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Finance Agent v2 | 53.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 82.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 59.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 72.97% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 21.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 20.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 71.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 63.3 (Supported · #12/135)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 69.2% | 59% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SWE Multilingual | 84.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multimodal | 38.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 74.6% | 80.2% | Sakana Fugu |
| cursorBench31 | 58.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 62.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 46.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 59 (#15/19)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 70.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 1.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 87.7 (#4/50)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 68.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro | 66.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 87.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 89.9% | 85.1% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 80.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 70 (Supported · #11/158)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 93.6% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| GPQA-D | 93.6% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| HLE | 57.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 49.8% | 47.2% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| INCLUDE | 87.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 74 (#60/124)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 65.2 (#2/7)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| USAMO 2026 | 96.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 47.241% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 31.250% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.8 or Sakana Fugu?

Claude Opus 4.8 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.8 and Sakana Fugu?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 87.7 for Claude Opus 4.8 and 68.6 for Sakana Fugu.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.8 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.8 currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Sakana Fugu cover on BenchLM?

Sakana Fugu currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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