Sakana: Sakana Namazu by Sakana — $0.950 input / $4.00 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 262K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.
| Usage | Daily | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Chatbot (100/day) | $0.547 | $16.43 |
| Small app (1K/day) | $2.95 | $88.50 |
| Mid-scale (10K/day) | $39.00 | $1170.00 |
| Large scale (100K/day) | $875.00 | $26250.00 |
sakana/sakana-namazuSakana: Sakana Namazu is an LLM developed by Sakana. Input costs $0.950 per million tokens and output costs $4.00 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 262K tokens.
Via the OpenRouter API:
A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.
For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):
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