Qwen3.8 Flash vs Sakana Namazu: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Qwen3.8 Flash is developed by Alibaba, while Sakana Namazu comes from Sakana AI. Both were released in August 2026. Qwen3.8 Flash has a published size of about 125 billion parameters; Sakana AI has not disclosed the parameter count of Sakana Namazu.
We have 22 benchmark results for Qwen3.8 Flash and 3 benchmark results for Sakana Namazu, but they overlap on a single test: LiveCodeBench v6, where Qwen3.8 Flash scores 91.9% against 90.3%.
Qwen3.8 Flash is the cheaper API at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens, roughly 6 times cheaper than Sakana Namazu at $0.95 and $4. Qwen3.8 Flash takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 256K for Sakana Namazu. Qwen3.8 Flash accepts text, images, and video as input, while Sakana Namazu accepts text and images.
| Characteristic | Qwen3.8 Flash | Sakana Namazu |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Alibaba | Sakana AI |
| Release Date | August 26, 2026 | August 3, 2026 |
| Parameters | 125B | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 256K |
| Context (output) | 131K | 256K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.15 | $0.95 |
| Output Price / 1M | $0.47 | $4.00 |
| Average Score | 68.5% | 92.4% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 91.9% | 90.3% |
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Verdict
Qwen3.8 Flash leads in 3 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Qwen3.8 Flash — 0.7, Sakana Namazu — 0.9.
Qwen3.8 Flash is 8.0x cheaper: input $0.15/1M vs $0.95/1M tokens.
Qwen3.8 Flash supports a larger context: 1M vs 256K tokens.
Qwen3.8 Flash is newer: released 8/26/2026 vs 8/3/2026.
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