Claude 3 Opus vs Sarvam 30B

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 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3 Opus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Sarvam 30B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Claude 3 Opus finishes one point ahead overall, 49 to 48. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Claude 3 Opus's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 48.1 against 35.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 10% to 34%. Sarvam 30B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Sarvam 30B 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 64K for Sarvam 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context200K64K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusSarvam 30B
AgenticClaude 3 Opus wins
Terminal-Bench 2.044%
BrowseComp56%35.5%
OSWorld-Verified47%
CodingSarvam 30B wins
HumanEval84.9%92.1%
SWE-bench Verified10%34%
LiveCodeBench20%
SWE-bench Pro20%
LiveCodeBench v670.0%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro73%
OfficeQA Pro67%
Reasoning
MuSR57%
BBH74%
LongBench v262%
MRCRv263%
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
MMLU86.8%85.1%
GPQA61%
SuperGPQA59%
MMLU-Pro62%80%
HLE1%
FrontierScience56%
SimpleQA59%
Instruction Following
IFEval77%
Multilingual
MGSM73%
MMLU-ProX68%
MathematicsSarvam 30B wins
AIME 202361%
AIME 202463%
AIME 202562%80%
HMMT Feb 202357%
HMMT Feb 202459%
HMMT Feb 202558%
BRUMO 202560%
MATH-50073%97%
HMMT Feb 202573.3%
HMMT Nov 202574.2%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Claude 3 Opus or Sarvam 30B?

Claude 3 Opus is ahead overall, 49 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 10% and 34%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 3 Opus or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 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 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 34 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 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86.5 versus 64.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 3 Opus or Sarvam 30B?

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.1 versus 35.5. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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