Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs Sakana Namazu: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is developed by Google, while Sakana Namazu comes from Sakana AI. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite was released in July 2026, and Sakana Namazu followed a month later in August 2026.
We have 6 benchmark results for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3 benchmark results for Sakana Namazu, but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is the cheaper API at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, roughly 3 times cheaper than Sakana Namazu at $0.95 and $4. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 256K for Sakana Namazu. Both accept text and images as input. On tooling, only Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite supports function calling and only Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite offers structured output.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Sakana Namazu |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Sakana AI | |
| Release Date | July 21, 2026 | August 3, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 256K |
| Context (output) | 66K | 256K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.30 | $0.95 |
| Output Price / 1M | $2.50 | $4.00 |
| Average Score | 53.2% | 92.4% |
Verdict
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite — 0.5, Sakana Namazu — 0.9.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is 1.8x cheaper: input $0.30/1M vs $0.95/1M tokens.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite supports a larger context: 1M vs 256K tokens.
Both models were released around the same time: 7/21/2026 and 8/3/2026.
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