Sakana

Sakana Namazu

CTX262K

Reasoning · Vision · Tools

Input$0.95/M

Output$4/M

Japanese-specialized reasoning model based on Kimi K2.6 and tuned for Japanese language, culture, and business workflows

PaidProprietary963/1044

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Sakana Namazu

Japanese-specialized reasoning model based on Kimi K2.6 and tuned for Japanese language, culture, and business workflows

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Type: Text
Quality: Not rated yet
Context window: 262,144 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Input price: $0.95 / 1M tokens
Output price: $4.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.15 / 1M tokens
Cache write: —
Released: Aug 3, 2026
Knowledge cutoff: —
Takes in: Text, Image, PDF
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: Yes
File attachments: Yes
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Uncommon
Set number: 963/1044

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Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Sakana’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: console.sakana.ai.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Sakana Namazu, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

No public leaderboard lists Sakana Namazu yet. Epoch AI and LMArena cover most chat, image, and video models from the big labs; embeddings, speech, and small open models mostly go unrated.

Where to run it

5 providers sell Sakana Namazu through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestKilo Gateway$0.95 in · $4.00 out
From the labSakana AI$0.95 in · $4.00 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
Kilo GatewayCheapest paid`sakana/sakana-namazu`	$0.95	$4.00	262K
Merge Gateway`sakana/sakana-namazu`	$0.95	$4.00	262K
OpenRouter`sakana/sakana-namazu`	$0.95	$4.00	262K
Sakana AIOfficial`sakana-namazu`	$0.95	$4.00	262K
Vercel AI Gateway`sakana/namazu`	$0.95	$4.00	256K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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