# Ripple-65B Preview vs Sakana Fugu

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Ripple-65B Preview and Sakana Fugu across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/ripple-65b-preview-vs-sakana-fugu
- Last updated: November 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Sakana Fugu if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ripple-65B Preview 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 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SciCode in Coding, with scores of 39.4% and 60.1%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Ripple-65B Preview | Sakana Fugu |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Ricursive Intelligence | Sakana AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 17 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ripple-65B Preview | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.5% | 80.2% | Ripple-65B Preview |
| τ³-bench results | 31.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | 36.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 71.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ripple-65B Preview | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.5% | 80.2% | Ripple-65B Preview |
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 61.4% | 59% | Ripple-65B Preview |
| DeepSWE | 44.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 39.4% | 60.1% | Sakana Fugu |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 77.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Ripple-65B Preview | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 71 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Ripple-65B Preview | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 85.1% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ripple-65B Preview | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 89.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 85.2% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 47.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ripple-65B Preview | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ripple-65B Preview | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 97.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | 98.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 95.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 90.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Ripple-65B Preview or Sakana Fugu?

Sakana Fugu is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Ripple-65B Preview cover on BenchLM?

Ripple-65B Preview currently has 17 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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## Explore More

- [Ripple-65B Preview profile](/models/ripple-65b-preview)
- [Sakana Fugu profile](/models/sakana-fugu)
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