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The main thing is a sax is a woodwind instrument, played by using a reed, and Trumpet is a brass instrument, using a cup shaped mouthpiece with no reed. Also, the trumpet has (normally) 3 valves, where as a sax has 10 or 12 keys (don't know exactly).

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