Sakana: Sakana Namazu vs SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-27.
| Sakana: Sakana Namazu | SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | sakana | x-ai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.95/M | $1.00/M |
| Output Price | $4.00/M | $2.00/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 256,000 |
| Max Output | 65,536 | 230,400 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Grok Build 0.1 costs $1.50 and Sakana Namazu costs $1.95, so Grok Build 0.1 is about 1.3 times cheaper for the same work.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 262,144 and 256,000 tokens, about 393 and 384 pages.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Sakana Namazu scores higher on 14 (Code Review, Code Completion, Code Refactoring and others), Grok Build 0.1 on 4 (SQL Generation, Code Documentation, Regex Writing and others).
Sakana Namazu was released in August 2026 and Grok Build 0.1 in May 2026.
Pick Sakana Namazu if you need the stronger all-round task scores; pick Grok Build 0.1 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 | Sakana: Sakana Namazu | SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 130 | 130 |
| Code Review | 126 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 128 | 116 |
| Code Refactoring | 127 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 130 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 121 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 125 | 125 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 117 | 117 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 128 | 127 |
| ETL Scripting | 122 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 123 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 128 | 121 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 128 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 128 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 129 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 115 |
| Blog Post Writing | 118 | 118 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →