Qwen3.8-27B vs Sakana Namazu: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Qwen3.8-27B is developed by Alibaba, while Sakana Namazu comes from Sakana AI. Both were released in August 2026. Qwen3.8-27B has a published size of about 28 billion parameters; Sakana AI has not disclosed the parameter count of Sakana Namazu.
We have 26 benchmark results for Qwen3.8-27B and 3 benchmark results for Sakana Namazu, but they overlap on a single test: LiveCodeBench v6, where Sakana Namazu scores 90.3% against 90.3%.
Sakana Namazu is available through an API at $0.95 per million input tokens with a 256K-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Qwen3.8-27B, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Qwen3.8-27B | Sakana Namazu |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Alibaba | Sakana AI |
| Release Date | August 14, 2026 | August 3, 2026 |
| Parameters | 28B | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | — | 256K |
| Context (output) | — | 256K |
| Input Price / 1M | — | $0.95 |
| Output Price / 1M | — | $4.00 |
| Average Score | 66.3% | 92.4% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 90.3% | 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: Qwen3.8-27B — 0.7, Sakana Namazu — 0.9.
Both models were released around the same time: 8/14/2026 and 8/3/2026.
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