Free general-public chat service from Sakana AI, built on its own Namazu model
Sakana Chat is listed under General Purpose Chatbots, in the AI Chat & Assistants category on Flocci AI Tools. Free general-public chat service from Sakana AI, built on its own Namazu model. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at chat.sakana.ai.
Sakana Chat is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 115 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.
Sakana Chat does 3 things the catalog singles out: Free general-public chat service from sakana ai, built on its own namazu model; real-time web search integration and three selectable tones including a distinct 'osaka' dialect style; launched march 2026 as sakana's pivot from pure r&d into consumer products alongside marlin and fugu.
Alibaba Quark AI Assistant is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same General Purpose Chatbots sub-category and is free. Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应), Baidu Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan) and Falcon LLM Chat (TII) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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