Sakana Namazu is Sakana's language model with a 262K context window and up to 66K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.95 / 1M input and $4.00 / 1M output. A Japanese-specialized reasoning model from Sakana AI, built on Kimi K2.6 with additional training for Japanese language and business contexts.
Specifications
Canonical IDsakana-namazu
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorSakana
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesImagePDFText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · today

Capabilities

Input3/5
Text
Image
Audio·
Video·
PDF
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities6/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema
Web Search
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Web Search
$ / request
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OpenRouter
sakana/sakana-namazu
$0.95$4.00$0.15$0.0070
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Vercel AI Gateway
sakana/namazu
$0.95$4.00$0.15N/A

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Model IDs

sakana-namazu
sakana/namazu
sakana/sakana-namazu