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Sakana Namazu

Sakana

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,...

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Updated 3 h ago · first seen 11 Sept 2026

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Overview

Identity

Canonical model
Yesidentity confidence: mediumOne row per real model release. Artifacts (checkpoints, quantisations, conversions) and folded evaluation variants point here.
Official checkpoints
None recordedofficial_checkpoints = hf_repo identifiers carried by the model itself; artifacts are separate entities pointing here through canonical_id.
Artifacts
None recordedSeparate entities (checkpoint · quantization · conversion · packaging) pointing to this model through canonical_id.
Provider deployments
1
API aliases
sakana/sakana-namazuIdentifiers under which providers and evaluators refer to this model.
Folded evaluation variants
0Effort / thinking variants (…-high, …-non-reasoning) are result configurations of this model, not separate models. Their old URLs redirect here.

Openness

Openness not classified yet — no sourced evidence to place this model in the ontology.

Key facts

Release date

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Openrouter id

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Capabilities

Modalities

Modalities
documentimagetext
Input
documentimagetext
Output
text

Capabilities

  • Tool calling

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Structured output

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Reasoning

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Vision

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Audio

    Unavailable

  • Fine-tuning available

    Unavailable

Context window

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Max output

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Providers & Pricing1

All offers in the price terminal →
Provider deployments, cheapest output first
ProviderContextInput / 1MCached inOutput / 1MStatusObservedSource
OpenRoutercheapest outputsakana/sakana-namazu262.1Kout 65.5K$0.15active2 h agosince 11 Sept 2026openrouter.aiT2

USD per 1M tokens as published by each provider; native units (per-request fees, flex/priority tiers) are kept verbatim. Rows are append-only — every price change is kept in the history below. Cost of a workload →

Price history

Step lines per provider; amber markers are recorded changes. Click a marker or a row for the evidence behind that price.

Output price · USD / 1M tokens 1 provider

Output price history of Sakana Namazu$0$1$2$3$4$5Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26OpenRouter: first observed → $4 · 11 Sept 2026
  • OpenRouter
  • OpenRouterfirst observed $411 Sept 2026

Input price · USD / 1M tokens 1 provider

Input price history of Sakana Namazu$0$0.20$0.40$0.60$0.80$1$1.2Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26OpenRouter: first observed → $0.95 · 11 Sept 2026
  • OpenRouter
  • OpenRouterfirst observed $0.9511 Sept 2026

Versions & Artifacts0

Version history

Context windowfirst observation only

11 Sept 2026current

Max outputfirst observation only

11 Sept 2026current

Each hop is a claim: click a value for its source, tier and observation time. Nothing is overwritten — a new observation closes the previous claim.

Artifacts 0

No artifact (checkpoint, quantisation, conversion or packaging) points to this model yet.

Timeline2

Full timeline →
  • Capabilities changedModelSakana NamazuSakana

    Sakana Namazu: modalities changed from ["image", "text"] to ["document", "image", "text"]

    Modalitiesimage, text→document, image, textopenrouter
    openrouter.ai
  • Property changedModelSakana NamazuSakana

    Sakana Namazu: modalities input changed from ["image", "text"] to ["document", "image", "text"]

    Input modalitiesimage, text→document, image, textopenrouter
    openrouter.ai

Change history17

Temporal, append-only claims: a new observation closes the previous claim instead of overwriting it. Rewind the record with the as-of picker.

Viewing AI Atlas as of 1 Sept 2026 — attributes exactly as the atlas knew them on that day; later corrections are not shown.

Back to today →

Sakana Namazu was not yet in AI Atlas on 1 Sept 2026

First seen 11 Sept 2026. Nothing is inferred backwards: no attribute is shown for dates before the first observation.
17 claims · 15 properties

Release daterelease_date1

Claim history for Release date
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
11 Aug 2026 → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Context windowcontext_length1

Claim history for Context window
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
262.1K tokens → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Max outputmax_output_tokens1

Claim history for Max output
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
65.5K tokens → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Modalitiesmodalities2

Claim history for Modalities
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
document, image, text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic
image, text → supersededOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Input modalitiesmodalities_input2

Claim history for Input modalities
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
document, image, text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic
image, text → supersededOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Output modalitiesmodalities_output1

Claim history for Output modalities
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Descriptiondescription1

Claim history for Description
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
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,... → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

File inputfile_input1

Claim history for File input
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Openrouter idopenrouter_id1

Claim history for Openrouter id
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
sakana/sakana-namazu → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Openrouter listed atopenrouter_listed_at1

Claim history for Openrouter listed at
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
11 Aug 2026 → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Reasoningreasoning1

Claim history for Reasoning
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Structured outputstructured_output1

Claim history for Structured output
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Supported parameterssupported_parameters1

Claim history for Supported parameters
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
include_reasoning, reasoning, reasoning_effort, structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools, web_search_options → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Tool callingtool_calling1

Claim history for Tool calling
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Visionvision1

Claim history for Vision
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Claims are temporal and append-only: a new observation closes the previous claim (valid_to) instead of overwriting it. Conflicting claims from different sources are kept side by side and flagged — never averaged. Methodology →

Provenance

Attributed facts

15

Source tiers

T215

Freshest observation

3 h ago

Conflicts

None

Source documents 1

Source documents
SourceDocumentTypeTierLast observedSnapshots
OpenRouter public model & pricing listingopenrouter.ai/api/v1/models catalogueT2· Quality secondary2 h ago9

Tier 1 = official/primary, 2 = quality secondary, 3 = community, 4 = unverified. Every snapshot is archived; see all sources and the methodology.

Data quality (50/100) measures how well AI Atlas knows this entity — completeness, primary-source ratio, freshness, conflicts — never how good the model is. Methodology →