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OpenAI: GPT Terra Latest vs Sakana: Sakana Namazu

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

OpenAI: GPT Terra Latest Sakana: Sakana Namazu
Vendor~openaisakana
Quality Score100100
Input Price$1.00/M$0.95/M
Output Price$5.00/M$4.00/M
Context Window1,050,000262,144
Max Output128,00065,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Sakana Namazu costs $1.95 and GPT Terra Latest costs $2.25, so Sakana Namazu is slightly cheaper for the same work.

GPT Terra Latest reads up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Sakana Namazu.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, GPT Terra Latest scores higher on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Sakana Namazu on 5 (Code Completion, Regex Writing, JSON Extraction and others).

GPT Terra Latest was released in September 2026 and Sakana Namazu in August 2026.

Pick GPT Terra Latest if you need long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Sakana Namazu if you need lower cost.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT Terra LatestSakana: Sakana Namazu
SQL Generation 133 130
Code Review 132 126
Code Completion 118 128
Code Refactoring 136 127
Bug Fixing 136 130
Unit Test Generation 124 121
Code Documentation 130 125
Regex Writing 118 119
CI/CD Pipelines 120 117
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 128
ETL Scripting 128 122
JSON Extraction 122 131
Bulk Data Labeling 120 128
OCR / Document Parsing 131 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 128
Long-Document Summarization 137 129
Short-Form Summarization 114 123
Blog Post Writing 121 118

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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