Ember-1 vs Sakana Namazu: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Ember-1 is developed by Fireworks AI, while Sakana Namazu comes from Sakana AI. Sakana Namazu was released in August 2026, and Ember-1 followed a month later in September 2026. Ember-1 has a published size of about 2.8 trillion parameters; Sakana AI has not disclosed the parameter count of Sakana Namazu.
We have 4 benchmark results for Ember-1 and 3 benchmark results for Sakana Namazu, but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
Sakana Namazu is the cheaper API at $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens, roughly 3 times cheaper than Ember-1 at $3 and $15. Ember-1 takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 256K for Sakana Namazu. Ember-1 accepts text as input, while Sakana Namazu accepts text and images. On tooling, only Ember-1 supports function calling and only Ember-1 offers structured output.
| Characteristic | Ember-1 | Sakana Namazu |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Fireworks AI | Sakana AI |
| Release Date | September 23, 2026 | August 3, 2026 |
| Parameters | 2.8T | — |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 256K |
| Context (output) | — | 256K |
| Input Price / 1M | $3.00 | $0.95 |
| Output Price / 1M | $15.00 | $4.00 |
| Average Score | 78.8% | 92.4% |
Verdict
Ember-1 leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Ember-1 — 0.8, Sakana Namazu — 0.9.
Sakana Namazu is 3.6x cheaper: input $0.95/1M vs $3.00/1M tokens.
Ember-1 supports a larger context: 1M vs 256K tokens.
Ember-1 is newer: released 9/23/2026 vs 8/3/2026.
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