# Gemma 4 12B vs Sakana Fugu

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemma 4 12B and Sakana Fugu across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemma-4-12b-vs-sakana-fugu
- Last updated: September 27, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Sakana Fugu if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 12B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Sakana Fugu leads overall 65 to 28.47.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 26.2 for Gemma 4 12B and 68.6 for Sakana Fugu.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MRCRv2 in Reasoning, with scores of 43.4% and 86.6%.
- Sakana Fugu also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemma 4 12B | Sakana Fugu |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Sakana AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 28.47 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 12 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 22 (Estimated · #110/135)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 72.0% | 92.9% | Sakana Fugu |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 34.7 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 70.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 53% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | 43.4% | 86.6% | Sakana Fugu |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 26.2 (#46/50)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 68.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 69.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 79.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 48.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 85.1% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 31.1 (Supported · #125/158)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 78.8% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| GPQA-D | 78.8% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 5.2% | 47.2% | Sakana Fugu |
| MMMLU | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 88.7 (#22/124)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 53 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 77.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Gemma 4 12B or Sakana Fugu?

Sakana Fugu is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Gemma 4 12B and Sakana Fugu?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 26.2 for Gemma 4 12B and 68.6 for Sakana Fugu.

### How many benchmarks does Gemma 4 12B cover on BenchLM?

Gemma 4 12B currently has 12 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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