Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 vs Sakana Namazu: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is developed by Alibaba, while Sakana Namazu comes from Sakana AI. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 was released in July 2025, and Sakana Namazu followed 13 months later in August 2026. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 has a published size of about 235 billion parameters; Sakana AI has not disclosed the parameter count of Sakana Namazu.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. Sakana Namazu leads on 2 of them. The widest gaps are on LiveCodeBench v6, where Sakana Namazu scores 90.3% against 74.1%; MMLU-Pro, where Sakana Namazu scores 90.3% against 84.4%. Averaged across everything we track, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 sits at 69.2% and Sakana Namazu at 92.4%.
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is the cheaper API at $0.30 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens, roughly 3 times cheaper than Sakana Namazu at $0.95 and $4. Both accept a context window of about 256K tokens. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 accepts text as input, while Sakana Namazu accepts text and images. On tooling, only Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 supports function calling and only Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 offers structured output.
| Characteristic | Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 | Sakana Namazu |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Alibaba | Sakana AI |
| Release Date | July 24, 2025 | August 3, 2026 |
| Parameters | 235B | — |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | 256K | 256K |
| Context (output) | 33K | 256K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.30 | $0.95 |
| Output Price / 1M | $3.00 | $4.00 |
| Average Score | 69.2% | 92.4% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 74.1% | 90.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 84.4% | 90.3% |
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Verdict
Both models show equal results — the choice depends on your specific use case.
Both models show comparable average scores: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 — 0.7, Sakana Namazu — 0.9.
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is 1.5x cheaper: input $0.30/1M vs $0.95/1M tokens.
Same context size: 256K tokens.
Sakana Namazu is newer: released 8/3/2026 vs 7/24/2025.
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