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Sakana: Sakana Namazu vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Sakana: Sakana Namazu Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash (batch)
Vendorsakanagoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-53.5
Input Price$0.95/M$0.75/M
Output Price$4.00/M$4.50/M
Context Window262,1441,048,576
Max Output65,53665,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-53.8

Who wins by task?

TaskSakana: Sakana NamazuGoogle: Gemini 3.5 Flash (batch)
SQL Generation 130 139
Code Review 126 142
Code Completion 128 132
Code Refactoring 127 144
Bug Fixing 130 146
Unit Test Generation 121 130
Code Documentation 125 135
Regex Writing 119 124
CI/CD Pipelines 117 126
Frontend Component Design 122 128
Data Analysis 124 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 135
ETL Scripting 122 135
JSON Extraction 131 130
Bulk Data Labeling 128 128
OCR / Document Parsing 128 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 128 133
Long-Document Summarization 129 146
Short-Form Summarization 123 125
Blog Post Writing 118 127

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

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