Sakana AI model product
Sakana Namazu is Sakana AI's proprietary closed API model for Japanese language and Japanese business contexts.
Updated Sep 8, 2026. Default version: Sakana Namazu
This profile uses the model's current scored version. Arena ratings and prices are shown separately.
Benchmark scores for Sakana Namazu.
Benchmark | Score | Rank | Participants | Percentile | Evidence | Evaluated |
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| BenchmarkMMLU-Pro | Score90.33% | Rank01 | Participants138 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkAIME 2026 | Score96.67% | Rank02 | Participants22 | Percentile95.24% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLiveCodeBench v6 | Score90.33% | Rank04 | Participants62 | Percentile95.08% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
The default version does not have a matching Arena result yet.
Official vendor API pricing appears first, followed by individual provider offers.
Provider | Provider model ID | Region | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Updated |
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| ProviderOpenRouter | Provider model IDsakana/sakana-namazu | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.95 | Output / 1M$4 | Context262.1K | Updated |
| ProviderMerge Gateway | Provider model IDsakana/sakana-namazu | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.95 | Output / 1M$4 | Context262.1K | Updated |
| ProviderSakana AI | Provider model IDsakana-namazu | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.95 | Output / 1M$4 | Context262.1K | Updated |
| ProviderVercel AI Gateway | Provider model IDsakana/namazu | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.95 | Output / 1M$4 | Context256K | Updated |
| ProviderKilo Gateway | Provider model IDsakana/sakana-namazu | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.95 | Output / 1M$4 | Context262.1K | Updated |
Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.
Provider-specific output speed and catalog latency for Sakana Namazu. Runtime does not affect the capability score.
No provider-specific speed or latency record is linked to the default version yet.
Output Speed is generated output tokens received per second. Catalog latency is reported separately from observed provider TTFT.
Technical details for the model's default version.
Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
Version | Released | LLMBoard | Parameters | Context | Max output | Open weights | License |
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| VersionSakana Namazu | Released | LLMBoard70.94 | ParametersN/A | Context256K | Max output256K | Open weightsNo | LicenseProprietary |
Recommendations prioritize the same model type and family, then the closest LLMBoard score.
Key information about Sakana Namazu and its available data.
6, adapted with in-house data for Japanese and business use. It accepts text, image, and file inputs, produces text outputs, and has a 256K context window with web_search and code_interpreter tools.
Data as of 2026-09-08.
Common questions about Sakana Namazu.
Sakana Namazu's default version was released on Aug 3, 2026.
Sakana Namazu's official API price is $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens via Sakana AI. The lowest tracked third-party offer starts at $0.95 input and $4 output via OpenRouter.
Sakana Namazu was created by Sakana AI.
The default version has a 256K token context window.
No. The default version is not marked as having publicly available weights.
5 provider offerings are linked to the default version.