# dots3-note Preview vs Sakana Fugu-Ultra

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for dots3-note Preview and Sakana Fugu-Ultra across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/dots3-note-preview-vs-sakana-fugu-ultra
- Last updated: September 28, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Sakana Fugu-Ultra if you want the stronger benchmark profile. dots3-note Preview only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Sakana Fugu-Ultra leads overall 74 to 62.64.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 67.2 for dots3-note Preview and 73.6 for Sakana Fugu-Ultra.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE-bench Pro in Coding, with scores of 61% and 73.7%.
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | dots3-note Preview | Sakana Fugu-Ultra |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Dots Studio | Sakana AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 512K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 62.64 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 31 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 56.4 (Estimated · #28/117)
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Claw-Eval | 73.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 75.1% | 82.1% | Sakana Fugu-Ultra |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 55.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | 30.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 83.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 78.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Codeforces | 3056.0 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 91.5% | 93.2% | Sakana Fugu-Ultra |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 75.1% | 82.1% | Sakana Fugu-Ultra |
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 75.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 61% | 73.7% | Sakana Fugu-Ultra |
| NL2Repo | 49.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 58.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 72.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: 79.1 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 81.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 93.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 67.2 (Unranked · 10 rankable rows)
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: 73.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SimpleVQA | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 79.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 19.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | 60.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | 50.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 79.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 86.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 50% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 85.2 (#37/124)
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | 93.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IMOAnswerBench | 90.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, dots3-note Preview or Sakana Fugu-Ultra?

Sakana Fugu-Ultra is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between dots3-note Preview and Sakana Fugu-Ultra?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 67.2 for dots3-note Preview and 73.6 for Sakana Fugu-Ultra.

### How many benchmarks does dots3-note Preview cover on BenchLM?

dots3-note Preview currently has 31 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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

Sakana Fugu-Ultra currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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