How do I access Fugu Max from inside Iran?

Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Is Fugu Max compatible with OpenAI code?

Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. Point your base URL at Hormouz and swap in your Hormouz key. Your existing SDKs and code run without a rewrite.

Sakana: Fugu Max: AI model

Fugu Max is a cost-efficient multi-agent orchestration system from Sakana AI with a 1M-token context window. Reachable from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Context window:: 1,000,000 tokens
Input:: $2/1M tokens
Output:: $6/1M tokens
Type:: text, image

Vision
Tools
Streaming
Long context

Thinking levels: Always thinks · max · xhigh · high

Fugu Max is the value model in Sakana AI's Fugu family. A trained orchestrator routes each task across a fixed pool of open and specialised models, including NVIDIA's Nemotron family, choosing efficient combinations of expert agents so that quality and cost improve together. It has a flat price whatever the context length, accepts images and PDFs, and can search and fetch web pages on its own.

It accepts text, image and file (PDF) input and returns text, and supports tool calling, structured JSON output and streaming. It always reasons before answering, and you choose how hard it thinks with the reasoning effort setting. Fugu Max is commonly used for research with web search, coding agents, document analysis and multi-step tasks on a budget. Hormouz serves it behind an OpenAI-compatible API: point your base URL at Hormouz, drop in a Hormouz key, and existing OpenAI SDK code runs without changes.

Pricing is usage-based: $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. There is no fixed monthly fee, and you pay only for the tokens you use. Hormouz provides stable access to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Fugu Max is the cost-performance model in Sakana AI's Fugu family. Rather than a single monolithic model, Fugu is a learned multi-agent orchestration system: a language model trained to route...

Quickstart

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "sakana/fugu-max",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Specs

Vendor	Sakana AI
Type	Text, Image
Context window	1,000,000 tokens
Pricing	$2.00/M in · $6.00/M out
API	Chat Completions
Capabilities	Streaming · Vision · Tools

Code example

cURL

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "sakana/fugu-max",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="ng-YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.hormouz.net/v1")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="sakana/fugu-max",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

JavaScript

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ apiKey: "ng-YOUR_API_KEY", baseURL: "https://api.hormouz.net/v1" });
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "sakana/fugu-max",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

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FAQ

How much does Fugu Max cost?: Pricing is usage-based: $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. There is no fixed monthly fee, and you pay only for the tokens you use.
How do I access Fugu Max from inside Iran?: Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.
Is Fugu Max compatible with OpenAI code?: Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. Point your base URL at Hormouz and swap in your Hormouz key. Your existing SDKs and code run without a rewrite.
What context window and capabilities does Fugu Max have?: It has a 1M-token context window, accepts text, image and file (PDF) input, and supports tool calling, structured JSON output and streaming. It always reasons before answering, and you choose how hard it thinks with the reasoning effort setting.
What is Fugu Max good for?: Typical uses are research with web search, coding agents, document analysis and multi-step tasks on a budget.

Updated 2026-10-13