Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B vs Sakana: Sakana Namazu

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.8 27B costs $1.17 and Sakana Namazu costs $1.95, so Qwen3.8 27B is about 1.7 times cheaper for the same work.

Qwen3.8 27B reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Sakana Namazu.

Only Qwen3.8 27B offers video input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.8 27B scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick Qwen3.8 27B if you need lower cost, long documents, video input or the stronger all-round task scores.

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