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Sakura AI Engine free tier tested: Kimi-K2.6 and GPT-OSS 120B show promise

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Sakura AI Engine, a Japanese cloud service from Sakura Internet, offers a free tier with 3,000 monthly chat requests and a zero data retention policy. A recent verification tested three models—GPT-OSS 120B, llm-jp-3.1-8x13b-instruct4, and preview/Kimi-K2.6—on explanation, code generation, and summarization tasks. While GPT-OSS 120B and Kimi-K2.6 performed well across tasks, llm-jp-3.1-8x13b-instruct4 struggled with character limits and provided incorrect expected values in code generation tests. AI

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Sakura AI Engine free tier tested: Kimi-K2.6 and GPT-OSS 120B show promise

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    I Verified Sakura AI Engine's Free Tier: 3 Models, 3 Tasks, Honest Results

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