Sakana Namazu

Sakana Namazu is a Japanese-specialized LLM that combines a deep understanding of Japanese culture and business customs with high-performance language capabilities. Built on the open model Kimi K2.6 and refined with Sakana AI's in-house data for Japanese language and business workflows, it handles complex tasks using web search and code execution. Unlike Fugu, which orchestrates multiple frontier models, Sakana Namazu provides a single in-house model as an API.

Model overview

Model ID: sakana/namazu
Provider: sakana
Type: language
Context window: 256,000 tokens
Max output tokens: 256,000

Tags: vision, file-input, implicit-caching, reasoning, structured-output, tool-use, web-search

Model pricing

Metric	Value
`Input tokens (/1M)`	`$0.95`
`Output tokens (/1M)`	`$4.00`
`Image generation`	`n/a`
`Cached input read (/1M)`	`$0.15`
`Cached input write (/1M)`	`n/a`
`Pricing source`	`gateway`

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