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Sakana Namazu

by 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 Ja

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Sakana Namazu

Added 3 Sept 2026

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Overview

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,...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `sakana/sakana-namazu`.

  • openrouter · sakana/sakana-namazu Docs

OpenRouter id: sakana/sakana-namazu

Notes

Sakana Namazu is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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How much Sakana Namazu is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
607M ▲1367%
Requests, last 7 days
34.4K
Tool calls, last 7 days
21.3K
Price per million tokens
$0.95 in · $4 out
0250M500M19 Sept: 2.5M tokens, 527 requests20 Sept: 2.3M tokens, 585 requests21 Sept: 1.7M tokens, 476 requests22 Sept: 6.8M tokens, 697 requests23 Sept: 5.4M tokens, 850 requests24 Sept: 1.7M tokens, 576 requests25 Sept: 3M tokens, 503 requests26 Sept: 8.6M tokens, 752 requests27 Sept: 1.3M tokens, 515 requests28 Sept: 2.8M tokens, 619 requests29 Sept: 4.3M tokens, 969 requests30 Sept: 2.7M tokens, 778 requests1 Oct: 1.2M tokens, 512 requests2 Oct: 7.5M tokens, 817 requests3 Oct: 2.6M tokens, 529 requests4 Oct: 6.7M tokens, 632 requests5 Oct: 5.6M tokens, 810 requests6 Oct: 2.1M tokens, 489 requests7 Oct: 4.5M tokens, 968 requests8 Oct: 14.4M tokens, 1.7K requests9 Oct: 11.4M tokens, 2.3K requests10 Oct: 8.1M tokens, 2.7K requests11 Oct: 1.9M tokens, 609 requests12 Oct: 2.3M tokens, 655 requests13 Oct: 2.2M tokens, 576 requests14 Oct: 1.1M tokens, 430 requests15 Oct: 97.5M tokens, 5.7K requests16 Oct: 353M tokens, 13.7K requests17 Oct: 143M tokens, 5.1K requests18 Oct: 2.2M tokens, 582 requests19 Oct: 5.5M tokens, 7.9K requests20 Oct: 2.2M tokens, 907 requests21 Oct: 4.3M tokens, 526 requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct21 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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