Sakana: Sakana Namazu vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Sakana: Sakana Namazu | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | sakana | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.95/M | $0.25/M |
| Output Price | $4.00/M | $1.50/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 65,536 | 65,536 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | ✓ |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite costs $0.62 and Sakana Namazu costs $1.95, so Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is about 3.1 times cheaper for the same work.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Sakana Namazu.
Only Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite offers audio input and video input.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Sakana Namazu was released in August 2026 and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite in May 2026.
Pick Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite if you need lower cost, long documents, audio input, 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.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Sakana: Sakana Namazu | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 130 | 133 |
| Code Review | 126 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 128 | 131 |
| Code Refactoring | 127 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 130 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 121 | 124 |
| Code Documentation | 125 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 117 | 120 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 128 | 133 |
| ETL Scripting | 122 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 128 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 128 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 128 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 129 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 118 | 121 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →