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Sakana Namazu

Sakana Namazu is a Japanese-specialized LLM that combines a deep understanding of Japanese culture and business customs with high-performance language capabilities. Built on the open model Kimi K2.6 and refined with Sakana AI's in-house data for Japanese language and business…

TEXTREASONINGVISIONFILE-INPUTIMPLICIT-CACHINGREASONINGSTRUCTURED-OUTPUTTOOL-USEWEB-SEARCH
256K
CONTEXT WINDOW
-
MAX OUTPUT TOKENS
$0.95
INPUT PRICE / 1M TOKENS
$4
OUTPUT PRICE / 1M TOKENS
QUICKSTART

Call it in one request.

OpenAI-compatible: change the base URL, and the setup is complete.

curl https://enterprise.blackbox.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BLACKBOX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "blackboxai/sakana/namazu",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }],
    "stream": true
  }'
SPECIFICATIONS

The full spec sheet.

Context, pricing, modalities, routing, and deployment: everything Sakana Namazu supports, in one table.

MODEL ID
blackboxai/sakana/namazu
DEVELOPED BY
Sakana
MODEL TYPE
Text
RELEASED
Aug 3, 2026
CONTEXT WINDOW
256K
MAX OUTPUT TOKENS
-
INPUT MODALITIES
text, image, pdf
OUTPUT MODALITIES
text
INPUT PRICE
$0.95 / 1M tokens
OUTPUT PRICE
$4 / 1M tokens
CACHE READ
$0.15 / 1M tokens
REASONING
Supported
DATA RETENTION
Standard retention
DEDICATED DEPLOYMENT
Not available (closed-weight model)
SUPPORTED PARAMETERS
max_tokenstemperaturestoptoolstool_choicereasoninginclude_reasoningresponse_formatstructured_outputs