As of August 20, 2026, Sakana Namazu is 59% cheaper per million tokens than Claude Sonnet 5. Claude Sonnet 5 is $2.00 / $10.00 per million input/output tokens versus Sakana Namazu at $0.95 / $4.00. Sources: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing and https://sakana.ai
Sources: Anthropic Claude API pricing (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing); Sakana AI pricing (https://sakana.ai)
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic
Input
$2.00
Output
$10.00
Sakana Namazu
Sakana AI
Input
$0.95
Output
$4.00
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
Claude Sonnet 5Sakana NamazuVerdict
Sakana Namazu offers both lower pricing and stronger benchmark performance across the board, making it the clear value leader in this comparison.
As of August 20, 2026, Sakana Namazu is 59% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Sakana Namazu costs $0.95 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens ($4.95 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2.00 / $10.00 per million tokens ($12.00 blended). Sources: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing and https://sakana.ai. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Claude Sonnet 5 Claude API pricing from Anthropic is $2.00 input and $10.00 output per million tokens via Anthropic. 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.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 85.2%. Sakana Namazu does not have that eval on this page yet.
Claude Sonnet 5 supports a 1M token context window, while Sakana Namazu supports 256K tokens. Claude Sonnet 5 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.
Sakana Namazu leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks versus Claude Sonnet 5's 0 wins. 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 Claude Sonnet 5 and Sakana Namazu are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Sakana Namazu 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 Claude Sonnet 5 through Anthropic 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 Claude API pricing from Anthropic and Sakana AI API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/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.
Claude Sonnet 5 supports up to 64K 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.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a measured throughput of approximately 42 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 Claude Sonnet 5 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. Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2.00/M input and $10.00/M output. 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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