40% offSakana: Sakana Namazu API
Moonshot AI·Vision
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,...
Pricing
Cheapest live price, per 1 million tokens.
Input / 1M tokens
$0.950 OpenRouter
Output / 1M tokens
$4.00 OpenRouter
Cache read / 1M
Repeated prompt prefixes
Cache read is the discounted rate for repeated prompt prefixes (system prompts, agent context).
Capabilities · 10
Specifications
- Context window
- 262K
- Max output
- 66K
- Type
- Vision
- Creator
- Moonshot AI
- Live sellers
- 1
- Requests / 24h
- 1
Estimated monthly cost
30 days at the cheapest live price.
Quick start
OpenAI-compatible — change the base URL and key. Get a key from the dashboard.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.qubax.ai/v1",
api_key="YOUR_QUBAX_API_KEY",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="sakana-namazu",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About Sakana: Sakana Namazu
Sakana: Sakana Namazu is a multimodal language model developed by Moonshot AI. It's particularly well-suited for analyzing images, screenshots, and visual content, tackling complex, multi-step reasoning problems, orchestrating tool-using agents that call APIs and external services, grounding responses in real-time web search results, producing structured outputs for reliable data extraction and handling large contexts of up to 262K tokens. Its 262K-token context window means you can pass in entire documents, codebases, or conversation histories without losing context. It can write up to 66K tokens in a single response.
As of Oct 28, 2026, Sakana: Sakana Namazu costs $0.570 per 1M input tokens and $2.40 per 1M output tokens on Qubax, versus $0.950 / $4.00 on OpenRouter (40% less on input). A typical 1,000 chat requests (2K tokens in, 500 out) come to about $2.34. Pay with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH or 350+ other coins — no credit card required.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does the Sakana: Sakana Namazu API cost?
On Qubax, Sakana: Sakana Namazu costs $0.570 per 1M input tokens and $2.40 per 1M output tokens. This is 40% cheaper than OpenRouter's price of $0.950 per 1M input tokens.
Is the Sakana: Sakana Namazu API compatible with OpenAI?
Yes. Qubax provides an OpenAI-compatible API. You can use Sakana: Sakana Namazu as a drop-in replacement by changing your base URL to https://api.qubax.ai/v1 and using your Qubax API key. It works with Cline, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, and any tool that supports OpenAI APIs.
Why is Sakana: Sakana Namazu cheaper on Qubax than OpenRouter?
Qubax sources AI inference from an open compute marketplace on the Base blockchain where GPU providers compete on price. We pass the savings to you — 40% cheaper than OpenRouter's price for Sakana: Sakana Namazu.
How do I pay for Sakana: Sakana Namazu API usage?
Qubax uses prepaid crypto credits. Top up with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL or 350+ other coins and your balance is deducted as you use the API. No credit card or KYC required.
What is the context window of Sakana: Sakana Namazu?
Sakana: Sakana Namazu supports a context window of 262K tokens, allowing you to process large documents, codebases, or long conversations in a single request.
What can I build with Sakana: Sakana Namazu?
You can use Sakana: Sakana Namazu to analyze images and visual content, tackle complex multi-step reasoning tasks, build autonomous agents that call external tools and APIs, answer questions with real-time web search, generate structured JSON output for data pipelines and process long documents and entire codebases. Because it's served through Qubax's OpenAI-compatible API, integration into existing apps, agents, or workflows takes just a few lines of code.
How fast and reliable is Sakana: Sakana Namazu on Qubax?
Responses stream token by token. Latency depends on the provider and prompt length.
Sakana: Sakana Namazu vs Claude Opus 5: which should I choose?
Sakana: Sakana Namazu by Moonshot AI and Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic are both strong models in a similar price tier. Sakana: Sakana Namazu excels at complex reasoning and supports vision/image inputs. Claude Opus 5 comes from a different lab and may have different strengths depending on your workload. On Qubax, Sakana: Sakana Namazu starts at $0.570/1M input tokens versus Claude Opus 5's $1.12/1M — making Sakana: Sakana Namazu the more cost-effective option for high-volume workloads. Both are available on Qubax with crypto payments and OpenAI-compatible APIs, so you can try each and switch freely.
Can I use Sakana: Sakana Namazu for commercial projects?
Yes. Sakana: Sakana Namazu on Qubax can be used for commercial purposes. You own the outputs you generate. Qubax provides the API infrastructure — you bring your use case.
Why use Sakana: Sakana Namazu on Qubax?
40% cheaper
Providers compete on price — you get the cheapest healthy seller.
Pay with crypto
350+ coins (BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC). No card, no KYC.
OpenAI & Anthropic compatible
Drop-in base URL. Works with Cline, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs.