As of August 20, 2026, Pixtral-12B is 94% cheaper per million tokens than Sakana Namazu. Pixtral-12B is $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens versus Sakana Namazu at $0.95 / $4.00. Sources: https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/pricing/ and https://sakana.ai
Sources: Mistral AI pricing (https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/pricing/); Sakana AI pricing (https://sakana.ai)
Pixtral-12B
Mistral
Input
$0.15
Output
$0.15
Sakana Namazu
Sakana AI
Input
$0.95
Output
$4.00
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
Pixtral-12BSakana NamazuVerdict
Both models are closely matched on benchmarks. Pixtral-12B has the pricing advantage, making it the better value unless Sakana Namazu's specific capabilities are critical to your workflow.
As of August 20, 2026, Pixtral-12B is 94% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Pixtral-12B costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens ($0.30 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Sakana Namazu costs $0.95 / $4.00 per million tokens ($4.95 blended). Sources: https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/pricing/ and https://sakana.ai. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Pixtral-12B Mistral API pricing is $0.15 input and $0.15 output per million tokens via Mistral AI. Sakana Namazu Sakana AI API pricing is $0.95 input and $4.00 output per million tokens via Sakana AI. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Pixtral-12B has a published HumanEval score of 72%. Sakana Namazu does not have that eval on this page yet.
Pixtral-12B supports a 128K token context window, while Sakana Namazu supports 256K tokens. Sakana Namazu offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Shared benchmark scores for Pixtral-12B and Sakana Namazu are still limited. Check the comparison table for the evals each model has published. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both Pixtral-12B and Sakana Namazu are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Pixtral-12B has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call Pixtral-12B through Mistral AI and Sakana Namazu through Sakana AI with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published Mistral API pricing and Sakana AI API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/pricing/ and https://sakana.ai. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
Pixtral-12B supports up to 8K output tokens per request, while Sakana Namazu supports up to 256K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Pixtral-12B has a measured throughput of approximately 0.1 tokens/second. Throughput data for Sakana Namazu is not yet available. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Pixtral-12B or Sakana Namazu from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Pixtral-12B costs $0.15/M input and $0.15/M output via Mistral AI. Sakana Namazu costs $0.95/M input and $4.00/M output.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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