Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Sarvam 105B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet· Sarvam 105B

Quick Verdict

Pick Sarvam 105B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3.5 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you need the larger 200K context window.

Sarvam 105B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Sarvam 105B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 81.7 against 50.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2025, 66% to 88.3%. Claude 3.5 Sonnet does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Sarvam 105B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 3.5 Sonnet is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Claude 3.5 Sonnet gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Sarvam 105B.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context200K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetSarvam 105B
AgenticClaude 3.5 Sonnet wins
Terminal-Bench 2.054%
BrowseComp62%49.5%
OSWorld-Verified51%
CodingSarvam 105B wins
HumanEval92%
SWE-bench Verified49%45%
LiveCodeBench39%
SWE-bench Pro37%
LiveCodeBench v671.7%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro77%
OfficeQA Pro72%
VideoMMMU65.8%
Reasoning
MuSR61%
BBH83%
LongBench v270%
MRCRv270%
gpqaDiamond78.7%
hle11.2%
KnowledgeSarvam 105B wins
MMLU90.4%90.6%
GPQA59.4%
SuperGPQA63%
MMLU-Pro74%81.7%
HLE5%
FrontierScience59%
SimpleQA63%
Instruction FollowingSarvam 105B wins
IFEval83%84.8%
Multilingual
MGSM85%
MMLU-ProX78%
MathematicsSarvam 105B wins
AIME 202365%
AIME 202467%
AIME 202566%88.3%
HMMT Feb 202361%
HMMT Feb 202463%
HMMT Feb 202562%
BRUMO 202564%
MATH-50080%98.6%
HMMT Feb 202585.8%
HMMT Nov 202585.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (6)

Which is better, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B is ahead overall, 60 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2025, where the scores are 66% and 88.3%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 50.9. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 45 versus 40.5. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 92.3 versus 68.8. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Sarvam 105B?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55 versus 49.5. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84.8 versus 83. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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