Mistral Large 2 vs Sakana Namazu: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Mistral Large 2 is developed by Mistral AI, while Sakana Namazu comes from Sakana AI. Mistral Large 2 was released in July 2024, and Sakana Namazu followed 25 months later in August 2026. Mistral Large 2 has a published size of about 123 billion parameters; Sakana AI has not disclosed the parameter count of Sakana Namazu.
We have 5 benchmark results for Mistral Large 2 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 Mistral Large 2 at $2 and $6. Sakana Namazu takes the larger context window at 256K tokens, compared with 128K for Mistral Large 2. Mistral Large 2 accepts text as input, while Sakana Namazu accepts text and images. On tooling, only Mistral Large 2 supports function calling and only Mistral Large 2 offers structured output.
| Characteristic | Mistral Large 2 | Sakana Namazu |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Mistral AI | Sakana AI |
| Release Date | July 24, 2024 | August 3, 2026 |
| Parameters | 123B | — |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | 128K | 256K |
| Context (output) | 128K | 256K |
| Input Price / 1M | $2.00 | $0.95 |
| Output Price / 1M | $6.00 | $4.00 |
| Average Score | 87.6% | 92.4% |
Verdict
Sakana Namazu leads in 3 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Mistral Large 2 — 0.9, Sakana Namazu — 0.9.
Sakana Namazu is 1.6x cheaper: input $0.95/1M vs $2.00/1M tokens.
Sakana Namazu supports a larger context: 256K vs 128K tokens.
Sakana Namazu is newer: released 8/3/2026 vs 7/24/2024.
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