Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) vs Sakana: Sakana Namazu
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-21.
| Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) | Sakana: Sakana Namazu | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | qwen | sakana |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 76.5 | - |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $0.95/M |
| Output Price | $6.00/M | $4.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 131,072 | 65,536 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 74.9 | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Sakana Namazu costs $1.95 and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs $3.50, so Sakana Namazu is about 1.8 times cheaper for the same work.
Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 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 Max (0902) offers video input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.8 Max (0902) scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Sakana Namazu on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).
Qwen3.8 Max (0902) was released in September 2026 and Sakana Namazu in August 2026.
Pick Qwen3.8 Max (0902) if you need long documents, video input 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?
| Task | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) | Sakana: Sakana Namazu |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 142 | 130 |
| Code Review | 146 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 119 | 128 |
| Code Refactoring | 148 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 150 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 133 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 137 | 125 |
| Regex Writing | 125 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 129 | 117 |
| Frontend Component Design | 131 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 135 | 124 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 138 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 122 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 119 | 128 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 134 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 134 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 149 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 118 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 130 | 118 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →