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Sakana Namazu

by Sakana AI

Current new · 8d mid tier mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$0.950

per 1M tokens

Output

$4.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$1.71

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$0.150

16% of input — prompt caching

Source: official Sakana AI pricing · read Aug 11, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-11

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Overview

Sakana AI's Japanese-specialised LLM API — built on Moonshot AI's open Kimi K2.6 and adapted with Sakana's in-house data for Japanese language and Japanese business context, with built-in web search and code execution and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. $0.95/$4.00 per 1M tokens with cached input at $0.15.

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 3/9
Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning ✓ Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights Multimodal Web search Realtime

Specifications

Provider
Sakana AI
Context window
262K tokens
Modality
text
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Aug 3, 2026
Status
Current
Last updated
Aug 11, 2026
Tags
mid-tierreasoningcachingmultilingual

Availability verified: Aug 11, 2026 — listed on Sakana AI's own page