Grok 4.7 vs Sakana Namazu: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Grok 4.7 is developed by xAI, while Sakana Namazu comes from Sakana AI. Sakana Namazu was released in August 2026, and Grok 4.7 followed a month later in September 2026.
We have 23 benchmark results for Grok 4.7 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 2 times cheaper than Grok 4.7 at $2 and $6. Grok 4.7 takes the larger context window at 500K tokens, compared with 256K for Sakana Namazu. Both accept text and images as input. On tooling, only Grok 4.7 supports function calling and only Grok 4.7 offers structured output.
| Characteristic | Grok 4.7 | Sakana Namazu |
|---|---|---|
| Company | xAI | Sakana AI |
| Release Date | September 21, 2026 | August 3, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 500K | 256K |
| Context (output) | — | 256K |
| Input Price / 1M | $2.00 | $0.95 |
| Output Price / 1M | $6.00 | $4.00 |
| Average Score | 56.5% | 92.4% |
Verdict
Grok 4.7 leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Grok 4.7 — 0.6, Sakana Namazu — 0.9.
Sakana Namazu is 1.6x cheaper: input $0.95/1M vs $2.00/1M tokens.
Grok 4.7 supports a larger context: 500K vs 256K tokens.
Grok 4.7 is newer: released 9/21/2026 vs 8/3/2026.
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