Claude 3 Haiku 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 Haiku· Sarvam 105B

Quick Verdict

Pick Sarvam 105B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3 Haiku only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 200K context window or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Sarvam 105B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 43. 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 43.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2025, 57% to 88.3%.

Sarvam 105B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 3 Haiku 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 Haiku gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Sarvam 105B.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed138 t/sN/A
TTFT1.16sN/A
Context200K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuSarvam 105B
AgenticSarvam 105B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.040%
BrowseComp53%49.5%
OSWorld-Verified42%
CodingSarvam 105B wins
HumanEval73%
SWE-bench Verified17%45%
LiveCodeBench20%
SWE-bench Pro19%
LiveCodeBench v671.7%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro70%
OfficeQA Pro67%
Reasoning
MuSR52%
BBH74%
LongBench v263%
MRCRv263%
gpqaDiamond78.7%
hle11.2%
KnowledgeSarvam 105B wins
MMLU75.2%90.6%
GPQA56%
SuperGPQA54%
MMLU-Pro63%81.7%
HLE2%
FrontierScience50%
SimpleQA54%
Instruction FollowingSarvam 105B wins
IFEval76%84.8%
Multilingual
MGSM73%
MMLU-ProX70%
MathematicsSarvam 105B wins
AIME 202356%
AIME 202458%
AIME 202557%88.3%
HMMT Feb 202352%
HMMT Feb 202454%
HMMT Feb 202553%
BRUMO 202555%
MATH-50071%98.6%
HMMT Feb 202585.8%
HMMT Nov 202585.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (6)

Which is better, Claude 3 Haiku or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B is ahead overall, 60 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2025, where the scores are 57% and 88.3%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 3 Haiku or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 43.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude 3 Haiku or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 45 versus 18.9. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude 3 Haiku or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 92.3 versus 59.8. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 3 Haiku or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 49.5 versus 44. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude 3 Haiku or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84.8 versus 76. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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