{
    "$schema": "./provider-catalog.schema.json",
    "id": "sakana-ai",
    "displayName": "Sakana AI",
    "aliases": ["sakana"],
    "tier": 2,
    "wire": {
        "baseURL": "https://api.sakana.ai/v1",
        "apiKeyFallbackEnvVars": ["SAKANA_API_KEY"]
    },
    "models": {
        "default": "fugu",
        "fallbacks": ["fugu-ultra", "fugu-max", "sakana-namazu"],
        "defaultContextWindow": 128000,
        "defaultMaxOutputTokens": 8192,
        "catalog": {
            "fugu": {
                "contextWindow": 1000000,
                "vision": true,
                "status": "production",
                "description": "NeuroLink default. Models page (https://console.sakana.ai/models, retrieved 2026-09-29), Supported models table: \"The default Fugu model.\" Fugu overview: \"Fugu balances strong performance with low latency, making it the ideal default for everyday work.\" The Get Started page (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started) uses this id in its Chat Completions curl example (\"model\":\"fugu\"). Context window and image input: the Get Started page's Codex model catalog snippet (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started) lists slug fugu with display_name \"Fugu\", context_window 1000000 and input_modalities [\"text\", \"image\"], hence contextWindow 1000000 and vision true. Pricing page (https://console.sakana.ai/pricing), Fugu table, 1 agent: \"You pay only the standard rate for the specific underlying model.\" Multiple agents: \"We never stack model fees. You are charged a single rate based on the top tier model involved.\" pricingPerMTok is left out."
            },
            "fugu-ultra": {
                "contextWindow": 1000000,
                "pricingPerMTok": {
                    "input": 5,
                    "output": 30,
                    "cachedInput": 0.5
                },
                "vision": true,
                "status": "production",
                "description": "Models page (https://console.sakana.ai/models, retrieved 2026-09-29), Supported models table: \"The Fugu Ultra model, defaults to fugu-ultra-v2.0.\" Fugu Ultra overview: \"Fugu Ultra coordinates a deeper pool of expert agents to maximize answer quality on hard, high-stakes problems.\" Get Started page (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started): \"For complex tasks, especially when using fugu-ultra and fugu-cyber, you may need to increase client-side timeouts.\" Context window and image input: the Get Started page's Codex model catalog snippet (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started) lists slug fugu-ultra with display_name \"Fugu Ultra v2.0\", context_window 1000000 and input_modalities [\"text\", \"image\"]; the Models page's Supported models table says fugu-ultra \"defaults to fugu-ultra-v2.0\", so the same contextWindow 1000000 and vision true are recorded here. pricingPerMTok is the fugu-ultra-v2.0 rate. Pricing page (https://console.sakana.ai/pricing): \"Fixed pricing for fugu-ultra-v2.0 per 1M tokens.\" Standard price column: Input $5, Output $30, Cached input $0.50; Context > 272K column: Input $10, Output $45, Cached input $1.00; pricingPerMTok records the Standard price column. The same page says the orchestration tokens \"will be counted in the final price of the request.\""
            },
            "fugu-ultra-v2.0": {
                "contextWindow": 1000000,
                "pricingPerMTok": {
                    "input": 5,
                    "output": 30,
                    "cachedInput": 0.5
                },
                "vision": true,
                "status": "production",
                "description": "Models page (https://console.sakana.ai/models, retrieved 2026-09-29), Supported models table: \"V2.0 of Fugu Ultra.\" Pricing page (https://console.sakana.ai/pricing): \"Fixed pricing for fugu-ultra-v2.0 per 1M tokens.\" Standard price column: Input $5, Output $30, Cached input $0.50; Context > 272K column: Input $10, Output $45, Cached input $1.00; pricingPerMTok records the Standard price column. The same page says the orchestration tokens \"will be counted in the final price of the request.\" Context window and image input: the Get Started page's Codex model catalog snippet (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started) lists slug fugu-ultra with display_name \"Fugu Ultra v2.0\", context_window 1000000 and input_modalities [\"text\", \"image\"]; the Models page's Supported models table says fugu-ultra \"defaults to fugu-ultra-v2.0\", so the same contextWindow 1000000 and vision true are recorded here."
            },
            "fugu-ultra-v1.1": {
                "contextWindow": 1000000,
                "vision": true,
                "status": "production",
                "description": "Models page (https://console.sakana.ai/models, retrieved 2026-09-29), Supported models table: \"V1.1 of Fugu Ultra.\" The Get Started page (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started) lists the reasoning effort levels high, xhigh and max for model=\"fugu-ultra-v1.1\". Context window and image input: the Get Started page's Codex model catalog snippet (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started) lists slug fugu-ultra-v1.1 with display_name \"Fugu Ultra v1.1\", context_window 1000000 and input_modalities [\"text\", \"image\"], hence contextWindow 1000000 and vision true."
            },
            "fugu-ultra-v1.0": {
                "contextWindow": 1000000,
                "vision": true,
                "status": "production",
                "description": "Models page (https://console.sakana.ai/models, retrieved 2026-09-29), Supported models table: \"V1.0 of Fugu Ultra, also known as fugu-ultra-20260615.\" Context window and image input: the Get Started page's Codex model catalog snippet (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started) lists slug fugu-ultra-v1.0 with display_name \"Fugu Ultra v1.0\", context_window 1000000 and input_modalities [\"text\", \"image\"], hence contextWindow 1000000 and vision true."
            },
            "fugu-max": {
                "contextWindow": 1000000,
                "pricingPerMTok": {
                    "input": 2,
                    "output": 6,
                    "cachedInput": 0.25
                },
                "vision": true,
                "status": "production",
                "description": "Models page (https://console.sakana.ai/models, retrieved 2026-09-29), Supported models table: \"The Fugu Max model, defaults to fugu-max-v1.0.\" Fugu Max overview: \"Fugu Max orchestrates our largest pool of models to push the cost–performance Pareto frontier.\" Context window and image input: the Get Started page's Codex model catalog snippet (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started) lists slug fugu-max with display_name \"Fugu Max\", context_window 1000000 and input_modalities [\"text\", \"image\"]; the Models page's Supported models table says fugu-max \"defaults to fugu-max-v1.0\", so the same contextWindow 1000000 and vision true are recorded here. pricingPerMTok is the fugu-max-v1.0 rate. Pricing page (https://console.sakana.ai/pricing): \"Fixed pricing for fugu-max-v1.0 per 1M tokens, regardless of context length.\" Input $2, Output $6, Cached input $0.25; \"web_search and web_fetch are billed at $0.007 per call.\""
            },
            "fugu-max-v1.0": {
                "contextWindow": 1000000,
                "pricingPerMTok": {
                    "input": 2,
                    "output": 6,
                    "cachedInput": 0.25
                },
                "vision": true,
                "status": "production",
                "description": "Models page (https://console.sakana.ai/models, retrieved 2026-09-29), Supported models table: \"V1.0 of Fugu Max, optimized for cost-performance.\" Pricing page (https://console.sakana.ai/pricing): \"Fixed pricing for fugu-max-v1.0 per 1M tokens, regardless of context length.\" Input $2, Output $6, Cached input $0.25; \"web_search and web_fetch are billed at $0.007 per call.\" Context window and image input: the Get Started page's Codex model catalog snippet (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started) lists slug fugu-max with display_name \"Fugu Max\", context_window 1000000 and input_modalities [\"text\", \"image\"]; the Models page's Supported models table says fugu-max \"defaults to fugu-max-v1.0\", so the same contextWindow 1000000 and vision true are recorded here."
            },
            "sakana-namazu": {
                "contextWindow": 256000,
                "pricingPerMTok": {
                    "input": 0.95,
                    "output": 4,
                    "cachedInput": 0.15
                },
                "vision": true,
                "status": "production",
                "description": "Models page (https://console.sakana.ai/models, retrieved 2026-09-29), Supported models table: \"Alias that points to the latest version (currently sakana-namazu-v1.0).\" Models page, Sakana Namazu tab (https://console.sakana.ai/models?model=sakana-namazu, retrieved 2026-09-29), property table: Model ID sakana-namazu-v1.0, Alias sakana-namazu, Context window \"256K tokens\" (stored as 256000), Streaming \"Supported\", Image input \"Supported (URL and base64)\", Structured output \"json_schema and json_object\"; the same tab says \"Thinking is enabled by default.\" The Get Started page (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started) says \"Sakana Namazu is not included in subscription plans\" and that it is \"billed purely on a pay-as-you-go (per-token) basis.\" pricingPerMTok is the sakana-namazu-v1.0 rate. Pricing page (https://console.sakana.ai/pricing): \"Token pricing for sakana-namazu-v1.0 per 1M tokens.\" Input $0.95, Output $4.00, Cached input $0.15; \"Thinking tokens are billed at the same rate as output tokens.\""
            },
            "sakana-namazu-v1.0": {
                "contextWindow": 256000,
                "pricingPerMTok": {
                    "input": 0.95,
                    "output": 4,
                    "cachedInput": 0.15
                },
                "vision": true,
                "status": "production",
                "description": "Models page (https://console.sakana.ai/models, retrieved 2026-09-29), Supported models table: \"V1.0 of the Sakana Namazu model. A Japanese-specialized LLM.\" Models page, Sakana Namazu tab (https://console.sakana.ai/models?model=sakana-namazu, retrieved 2026-09-29), property table: Model ID sakana-namazu-v1.0, Alias sakana-namazu, Context window \"256K tokens\" (stored as 256000), Streaming \"Supported\", Image input \"Supported (URL and base64)\", Structured output \"json_schema and json_object\"; the same tab says \"Thinking is enabled by default.\" The Get Started page (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started) says \"Sakana Namazu is not included in subscription plans\" and that it is \"billed purely on a pay-as-you-go (per-token) basis.\" Pricing page (https://console.sakana.ai/pricing): \"Token pricing for sakana-namazu-v1.0 per 1M tokens.\" Input $0.95, Output $4.00, Cached input $0.15; \"Thinking tokens are billed at the same rate as output tokens.\""
            }
        },
        "topModels": [
            "fugu",
            "fugu-ultra",
            "fugu-ultra-v2.0",
            "fugu-ultra-v1.1",
            "fugu-ultra-v1.0",
            "fugu-max",
            "fugu-max-v1.0",
            "sakana-namazu",
            "sakana-namazu-v1.0"
        ]
    },
    "capabilities": {
        "text": true,
        "streaming": true,
        "tools": "model-dependent",
        "toolsWithStreaming": false,
        "structuredOutput": true,
        "structuredOutputWithTools": false,
        "embeddings": false,
        "thinking": true
    },
    "errorRules": [
        {
            "status": 401,
            "class": "authentication",
            "message": "Sakana AI answered HTTP 401 (authentication_error). Check {apiKeyEnvVar}. Get a key at {setupUrl}"
        }
    ],
    "setup": {
        "url": "https://console.sakana.ai/overview",
        "apiKeyFormat": null,
        "billingPolicy": "no-free-tier",
        "instructions": [
            "1. Visit: https://console.sakana.ai/overview and sign in - the page shows \"Login with Google\" and \"Send login link\"",
            "2. Create an API key - the Get Started page (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started) says: \"Before using Fugu or Sakana Namazu, create an API key and copy the generated key. The key is shown only once, so store it somewhere secure before closing the dialog.\"",
            "3. Billing as the vendor states it: the Pricing page (https://console.sakana.ai/pricing) lists Pay as you go rates per model and Subscription Plans (Standard $20/month, Pro $100/month, Max $200/month); the Get Started page says Sakana Namazu \"is billed purely on a pay-as-you-go (per-token) basis.\"",
            "4. Set {apiKeyEnvVar} in your .env file (SAKANA_API_KEY, which the Get Started page's curl example reads, is accepted as a fallback; the Models page's Python example reads FUGU_API_KEY and FUGU_BASE_URL, which NeuroLink does not)"
        ],
        "description": "Docs-verified only: the vendor's GET https://api.sakana.ai/v1/models needs a key (it answers HTTP 401 without one), so the nine model ids come from the Supported models table on https://console.sakana.ai/models and the roster has not been checked; the entry is not yet live-verified. OpenAI-compatible endpoint at https://api.sakana.ai/v1: the Get Started page (https://console.sakana.ai/get-started) shows the OpenAI Python SDK with base_url \"https://api.sakana.ai/v1\" and a curl POST to https://api.sakana.ai/v1/chat/completions with the header Authorization: Bearer $SAKANA_API_KEY, and the Models page (https://console.sakana.ai/models) says: \"Fugu currently supports the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions, Responses, and Models APIs, as well as the Anthropic-compatible Messages API.\" An unauthenticated GET of https://api.sakana.ai/v1/models returned HTTP 401 with error.type authentication_error and error.message \"Missing API key\" (2026-09-29), so errorRules holds one rule, for status 401. models.defaultContextWindow (128,000) and models.defaultMaxOutputTokens (8,192) are conservative placeholders the vendor does not publish."
    },
    "evidence": {
        "rosterVerified": {
            "date": "2026-09-29",
            "status": 401,
            "method": "docs-only — unauthenticated GET https://api.sakana.ai/v1/models answers 401 without a key, so model ids are taken from https://console.sakana.ai/models (retrieved 2026-09-29); roster not verified"
        },
        "authProbe": {
            "date": "2026-09-29",
            "status": 401,
            "code": "authentication_error",
            "method": "unauthenticated GET https://api.sakana.ai/v1/models with no credentials — HTTP 401, JSON body {\"error\":{\"message\":\"Missing API key\",\"type\":\"authentication_error\",\"param\":null,\"code\":null}}; code records the body's error.type because error.code is null; the same day an unauthenticated GET https://api.sakana.ai/v1/chat/completions answered HTTP 405 with JSON body {\"error\":{\"message\":\"Method Not Allowed\",\"type\":\"invalid_request_error\",\"param\":null,\"code\":null}}; credential-free, no key used"
        },
        "billingProbe": {
            "date": "2026-09-29",
            "method": "public pages https://console.sakana.ai/pricing (Pay as you go rates; Subscription Plans Standard $20/month, Pro $100/month, Max $200/month) and https://console.sakana.ai/get-started (Sakana Namazu \"is billed purely on a pay-as-you-go (per-token) basis\"); credential-free, no signup performed"
        },
        "liveMatrix": null,
        "addedInPR": "https://github.com/juspay/neurolink/pull/1862"
    }
}