Claude 4 Sonnet 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 4 Sonnet· Sarvam 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 4 Sonnet 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 4 Sonnet is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 48. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude 4 Sonnet's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 57.9 against 35.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 72.7% 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 4 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 4 Sonnet gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 64K for Sarvam 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed40 t/sN/A
TTFT1.33sN/A
Context200K64K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkClaude 4 SonnetSarvam 30B
AgenticClaude 4 Sonnet wins
Terminal-Bench 2.056%
BrowseComp62%35.5%
OSWorld-Verified57%
CodingClaude 4 Sonnet wins
HumanEval65%92.1%
SWE-bench Verified72.7%34%
LiveCodeBench36%
SWE-bench Pro48%
LiveCodeBench v670.0%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro81%
OfficeQA Pro78%
Reasoning
MuSR69%
BBH82%
LongBench v271%
MRCRv272%
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
MMLU86.5%85.1%
GPQA73%
SuperGPQA71%
MMLU-Pro75%80%
HLE12%
FrontierScience67%
SimpleQA71%
Instruction Following
IFEval83%
Multilingual
MGSM84%
MMLU-ProX81%
MathematicsSarvam 30B wins
AIME 202373%
AIME 202475%
AIME 202574%80%
HMMT Feb 202369%
HMMT Feb 202471%
HMMT Feb 202570%
BRUMO 202572%
MATH-50081%97%
HMMT Feb 202573.3%
HMMT Nov 202574.2%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Claude 4 Sonnet or Sarvam 30B?

Claude 4 Sonnet is ahead overall, 62 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 72.7% and 34%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 4 Sonnet or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 57.8. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude 4 Sonnet or Sarvam 30B?

Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.1 versus 34. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude 4 Sonnet or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86.5 versus 75.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 4 Sonnet or Sarvam 30B?

Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.9 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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