# LFM2.5-2.6B vs Sakana Fugu

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for LFM2.5-2.6B and Sakana Fugu across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-sakana-fugu
- Last updated: September 18, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: LFM2.5-2.6B and Sakana Fugu share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Sakana Fugu has the lower published output-token price.
- Sakana Fugu has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LFM2.5-2.6B | Sakana Fugu |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LiquidAI | Sakana AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 39.9 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-2.6B public-lane score: 37.2 (Estimated · #131/154)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-2.6B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 56.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 5.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 62.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PinchBench | 68.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-2.6B public-lane score: 39.2 (Estimated · #125/154)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-2.6B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 59.4% | 92.9% | Sakana Fugu |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-2.6B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 68.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-2.6B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 85.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-2.6B public-lane score: 24.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 69.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-2.6B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-2.6B public-lane score: 37 (Estimated · #151/184)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-2.6B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 47.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-2.6B public-lane score: 38.1 (#104/124)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-2.6B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 59.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-2.6B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-2.6B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 51.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between LFM2.5-2.6B and Sakana Fugu?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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