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Sakana Namazu

Sakana AIProprietary

Description

Sakana Namazu is Sakana AI's proprietary closed API model specialized for Japanese language and Japanese business contexts. It is a post-trained derivative of Moonshot's open Kimi K2.6 with in-house data for Japanese/business adaptation and reduced refusals/bias. Modalities: text, image, and file inputs → text output. Built-in tools include web_search and code_interpreter (code execution). Context window 256K. OpenAI-compatible API (model id sakana-namazu; pricing SKU sakana-namazu-v1.0). List pricing: $0.95 input / $0.15 cached input / $4.00 output per 1M tokens; thinking tokens billed as output. Tool fees (description only besides web_search field): web search $7.00 per 1,000 calls; code execution $0.12 per hour (session retained). Not yet available in the EU/EEA, UK, or Switzerland pending GDPR and region-specific compliance. Chart scores with catalog ids: AIME 2026 0.9667, MMLU-Pro 0.9033, LiveCodeBench v6 0.9033. No catalog id for JFBench 0.374, FairPoliticsQA 0.563, or in-house Translation 0.522 — recorded here only. Source: https://sakana.ai/namazu/

Release Date
2026-08-03
Parameters
Context Length
262K
Modalities
image, pdf, text

Capability Radar

90
general
0
coding
90
reasoning
77
scienceest.
63
agents
70
multimodal

Science is estimated from LLM Stats science scores or reasoning when no dedicated science benchmarks are available.

Rankings

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Benchmark Scores (LLM Stats)

(LLM Stats (zeroeval))

Finance

MMLU-Pro90.3%SR

General

LiveCodeBench v690.3%SR

Math

AIME 202696.7%SR

AA Evaluation Indices

(Artificial Analysis)

No AA evaluation data available

LLM Stats Category Scores

(LLM Stats (zeroeval))
Legal
90
Math
90
Reasoning
90
Language
90
Finance
90
General
90
Healthcare
90

Pricing

Input Price$0 / 1M tokens
Output Price$0 / 1M tokens
Blended Price (3:1)$0 / 1M tokens
Cache Read Price$0.15 / 1M tokens

Speed

No speed data available

Provider Price Ranking

Provider Price Ranking

3 providers

Cheapest: Sakana AIMost Expensive: Kilo Gateway
ProviderInputOutput
1Sakana AIPRIMARY
$0
$0
2OpenRouter
$0.95
$4
3Kilo Gateway
$0.95
$4

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