Sakana: Sakana Namazu vs xAI: Grok Latest
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-27.
| Sakana: Sakana Namazu | xAI: Grok Latest | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | sakana | ~x-ai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 5.8 |
| Input Price | $0.95/M | $1.60/M |
| Output Price | $4.00/M | $4.80/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 500,000 |
| Max Output | 65,536 | 450,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 11.4 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Sakana Namazu costs $1.95 and Grok Latest costs $2.80, so Sakana Namazu is about 1.4 times cheaper for the same work.
Grok Latest reads up to 500,000 tokens at once, roughly 750 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Sakana Namazu.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Sakana Namazu scores higher on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), Grok Latest on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).
Sakana Namazu was released in August 2026 and Grok Latest in July 2026.
Pick Sakana Namazu if you need lower cost; pick Grok Latest if you need long documents 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 | xAI: Grok Latest |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 130 | 134 |
| Code Review | 126 | 134 |
| Code Completion | 128 | 118 |
| Code Refactoring | 127 | 137 |
| Bug Fixing | 130 | 138 |
| Unit Test Generation | 121 | 125 |
| Code Documentation | 125 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 117 | 121 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 123 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 125 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 128 | 133 |
| ETL Scripting | 122 | 129 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 122 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 128 | 120 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 128 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 128 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 129 | 139 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 115 |
| Blog Post Writing | 118 | 122 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →