Sakana: Sakana Namazu

sakana/sakana-namazu

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,...

Modalities

In / out price

$0.95 / $4 per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Aug 11, 2026

Why use Sakana Namazu

Understands images
Reads PDFs and other files
Step-by-step reasoning mode
Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
Structured (JSON) outputs

Pricing

Input	$0.95 / 1M tokens
Output	$4 / 1M tokens
Cached input (read)	$0.15 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

Cost calculator

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TaskInput tokens≈ 602 wordsOutput tokens≈ 1,504 wordsRuns per month

Input served from cache: 0%Repeated prompts (same instructions or document) are billed at the cheaper cache-read price where the model supports it.

Model	Per run	Per month	Per 1,000 runs
Sakana: Sakana Namazu	$0.0088	$8.76	$8.76

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

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Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

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