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Sakana: Sakana Namazu vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-27.

Sakana: Sakana Namazu MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
Vendorsakanamoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-40.9
Input Price$0.95/M$0.66/M
Output Price$4.00/M$3.30/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output65,536235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-42.6

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Kimi K2.7 Code costs $1.48 and Sakana Namazu costs $1.95, so Kimi K2.7 Code is about 1.3 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 262,144 tokens at once, roughly 393 pages of text.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Kimi K2.7 Code on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Sakana Namazu was released in August 2026 and Kimi K2.7 Code in June 2026.

Pick Kimi K2.7 Code if you need lower cost 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?

TaskSakana: Sakana NamazuMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
SQL Generation 130 136
Code Review 126 134
Code Completion 128 129
Code Refactoring 127 134
Bug Fixing 130 138
Unit Test Generation 121 126
Code Documentation 125 129
Regex Writing 119 123
CI/CD Pipelines 117 122
Frontend Component Design 122 127
Data Analysis 124 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 129
ETL Scripting 122 128
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 128 128
OCR / Document Parsing 128 130
Table Extraction from PDFs 128 130
Long-Document Summarization 129 136
Short-Form Summarization 123 125
Blog Post Writing 118 124

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

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