# MiniCPM5-2B vs Sakana Fugu

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MiniCPM5-2B and Sakana Fugu across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minicpm5-2b-vs-sakana-fugu
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Sakana Fugu if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniCPM5-2B 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 69 to 44.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE-bench Pro in Coding, with scores of 14.4% and 59%.
- Sakana Fugu is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Sakana Fugu also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MiniCPM5-2B | Sakana Fugu |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenBMB | Sakana AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 131K | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 19 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 66.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 8.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 69.1% | 92.9% | Sakana Fugu |
| SciCode | 26.3% | 60.1% | Sakana Fugu |
| SWE-bench Verified | 46.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 14.4% | 59% | Sakana Fugu |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 8.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 68.8 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 85.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 69.5 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 43.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 8.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 70.2% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| SuperGPQA | 40.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 47.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | 86.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 86.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 86.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 63.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | 94.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MiniCPM5-2B or Sakana Fugu?

Sakana Fugu is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does MiniCPM5-2B cover on BenchLM?

MiniCPM5-2B currently has 19 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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