# Magistral Medium vs Sakana Fugu

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/magistral-medium-vs-sakana-fugu
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Magistral Medium and Sakana Fugu share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Sakana Fugu has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Magistral Medium | Sakana Fugu |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Mistral | Sakana AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 40K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v5 | 59.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 50.3% | 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: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 78.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 73.2 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 85.1% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 70.8% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 47.2% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 73.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | 64.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | 94.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Magistral Medium and Sakana Fugu?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, 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.

## Related Comparisons

- [Magistral Medium vs Magistral Small](/compare/magistral-medium-vs-magistral-small)
- [Sakana Fugu vs Magistral Small](/compare/magistral-small-vs-sakana-fugu)
- [Magistral Medium vs Sakana Fugu-Ultra](/compare/magistral-medium-vs-sakana-fugu-ultra)
- [Sakana Fugu vs Sakana Fugu-Ultra](/compare/sakana-fugu-vs-sakana-fugu-ultra)

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