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Sakana: Sakana Namazu
Sakanatext8.3 / 10 Overall Rating
Sakana Namazu is a Japanese-specialized reasoning model developed by Sakana AI using Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 architecture. It combines a 262K token context window with fine-tuning targeted specifically at Japanese instruction following and business domain tasks.
Context Window
262K
Knowledge Cutoff
2025
Max Output
16K
License
Proprietary
Where it Excels (Pros)
- 262K context window exceeds baselines
- Strong Japanese business context reasoning
- Cheaper than GPT-4o and Sonnet
Limitations (Cons)
- Niche focus on Japanese language
- Unproven for general English benchmarks
Benchmark Breakdown
Reasoning (MMLU)82%
Coding (HumanEval)78%
Mathematics (MATH)76%
Long-Context Retrieval95%
Pricing Matrix
Input cost / 1M tokens$0.95
Output cost / 1M tokens$4.00
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