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# Sakana: Sakana Namazu — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Sakana: Sakana Namazu: $0.950/M in, $4.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Sakana Namazu

Sakana AI · released 2026-08-11

 $1.71 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.950 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $4.00 /M |
| Cached input | $0.150 /M |
| Web search | $0.007 /call |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 66K |
| Input modes | text, image, file |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

Sakana Namazu is a Japanese-specialized reasoning model from Sakana AI, based on Kimi K2.6 with additional training for Japanese language and business contexts. It is suited for Japanese instruction following,...