Claude 3 Opus 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 Opus· Sarvam 105B

Quick Verdict

Pick Sarvam 105B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3 Opus 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 49. 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 46. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 10% to 45%.

Sarvam 105B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 3 Opus 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 Opus 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 OpusSarvam 105B
AgenticSarvam 105B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.044%
BrowseComp56%49.5%
OSWorld-Verified47%
CodingSarvam 105B wins
HumanEval84.9%
SWE-bench Verified10%45%
LiveCodeBench20%
SWE-bench Pro20%
LiveCodeBench v671.7%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro73%
OfficeQA Pro67%
Reasoning
MuSR57%
BBH74%
LongBench v262%
MRCRv263%
gpqaDiamond78.7%
hle11.2%
KnowledgeSarvam 105B wins
MMLU86.8%90.6%
GPQA61%
SuperGPQA59%
MMLU-Pro62%81.7%
HLE1%
FrontierScience56%
SimpleQA59%
Instruction FollowingSarvam 105B wins
IFEval77%84.8%
Multilingual
MGSM73%
MMLU-ProX68%
MathematicsSarvam 105B wins
AIME 202361%
AIME 202463%
AIME 202562%88.3%
HMMT Feb 202357%
HMMT Feb 202459%
HMMT Feb 202558%
BRUMO 202560%
MATH-50073%98.6%
HMMT Feb 202585.8%
HMMT Nov 202585.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (6)

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

Sarvam 105B is ahead overall, 60 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 10% and 45%.

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

Sarvam 105B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 46. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Sarvam 105B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 45 versus 17.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Sarvam 105B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 92.3 versus 64.1. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Sarvam 105B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 49.5 versus 48.1. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Sarvam 105B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84.8 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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