# Sakana Namazu

> Sakana Namazu is Sakana AI's Japanese-specialized LLM, built on the open model Kimi K2.6 and tuned in-house for Japanese and Japanese business contexts. It is a single in-house model (unlike Fugu's orchestrator) offered via an OpenAI-compatible API, and combines web search and code execution to carry complex tasks through to completion.

**ID**: `sakana/sakana-namazu`  
**Creator**: sakana  
**Category**: text  
**Context**: 262K tokens  
**Pricing**: $0.95 / $4.00 per 1M · billed by your provider (BYOK)  
**Released**: 2026-08-03  
**Web page**: https://anyrouter.dev/model/sakana/sakana-namazu

**Input modalities**: text, image  
**Output modalities**: text  

**Capabilities**: chat, reasoning, agentic, function-calling, structured-output, streaming, web-search

## Usage

**Endpoint**: `POST https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions`

```bash
curl https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "sakana/sakana-namazu",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Say hi in 3 words."
    }
  ]
}'
```

## Providers

| Provider | Input | Output |
| --- | --- | --- |
| sakana-byok | $0.95/M (list) | $4.00/M (list) |

BYOK routes are billed by your own provider key — AnyRouter charges $0. Rates marked (list) are the provider's published list price.

## Source

- Upstream docs: https://console.sakana.ai/models?model=sakana-namazu