SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7 vs Sakana: Sakana Namazu
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7 | Sakana: Sakana Namazu | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | x-ai | sakana |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $0.95/M |
| Output Price | $6.00/M | $4.00/M |
| Context Window | 500,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 450,000 | 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, Sakana Namazu costs $1.95 and Grok 4.7 costs $3.50, so Sakana Namazu is about 1.8 times cheaper for the same work.
Grok 4.7 reads up to 500,000 tokens at once, roughly 750 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Sakana Namazu.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Grok 4.7 scores higher on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Sakana Namazu on 5 (Code Completion, Regex Writing, JSON Extraction and others).
Grok 4.7 was released in September 2026 and Sakana Namazu in August 2026.
Pick Grok 4.7 if you need long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Sakana Namazu 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 | SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7 | Sakana: Sakana Namazu |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 130 |
| Code Review | 132 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 118 | 128 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 130 | 125 |
| Regex Writing | 118 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 117 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 122 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 119 | 128 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 114 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 118 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →