# Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B vs Sakana Fugu

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B and Sakana Fugu across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/ornith-1-5-35b-a3b-vs-sakana-fugu
- Last updated: October 2, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Sakana Fugu leads by point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence. Choose using the category evidence and your own workload tests.

## Summary

- Sakana Fugu has the higher overall point estimate 67 to 32.61. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE w/o tools in Knowledge, with scores of 25.6% and 47.2%.
- 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 | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B | Sakana Fugu |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Ornith AI | Sakana AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 32.61 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 18 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 23.5 (Estimated · #95/119)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 67.8% | 80.2% | Sakana Fugu |
| HLE w/ tools | 33.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 70.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 48.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 67.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 67.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 24 (Estimated · #110/144)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 67.8% | 80.2% | Sakana Fugu |
| SWE-bench Verified | 79% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 59.6% | 59% | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B |
| SWE Multilingual | 71.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 22.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| frontierBench | 5.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 46.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 70.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 69.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 85.1% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 34.5 (Estimated · #119/171)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.2% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| GPQA-D | 89.2% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| HLE | 25.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 25.6% | 47.2% | Sakana Fugu |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B or Sakana Fugu?

Sakana Fugu has the higher overall point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.

### How many benchmarks does Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B cover on BenchLM?

Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B currently has 18 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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