Sakana Namazu vs Z.ai GLM 5 Turbo
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Sakana Namazu is 1.1× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Sakana Namazu accepts longer prompts: 262K vs 203K tokens.
- Sakana Namazu is the newer model (released 2026-08-11).
| Sakana Namazu | GLM 5 Turbo | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Sakana | Z.ai |
| Released | 2026-08-11 | 2026-03-15 |
| Input / 1M | $0.95 | $1.20 |
| Output / 1M | $4.00 | $4.00 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.15 | $0.24 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $1.71 | $1.90 |
| Context | 262K | 203K |
| Max output | 66K | 131K |
| Accepts | text, image, file | text |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $4.00 | $4.00 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
Sakana Namazu
$117 per month$3.90 per day
GLM 5 Turbo
$132 per month$4.40 per day
Sakana Namazu saves $15.00 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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