Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
DBRX Instruct
41
1/8 categoriesSarvam 30B
48
Winner · 2/8 categoriesDBRX Instruct· Sarvam 30B
Pick Sarvam 30B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DBRX Instruct only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Sarvam 30B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 48 to 41. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Sarvam 30B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 80 against 52. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 70.1% to 92.1%. DBRX Instruct does hit back in coding, 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 DBRX Instruct 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. Sarvam 30B gives you the larger context window at 64K, compared with 32K for DBRX Instruct.
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| Benchmark | DBRX Instruct | Sarvam 30B |
|---|---|---|
| AgenticSarvam 30B wins | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 41% | — |
| BrowseComp | 31% | 35.5% |
| OSWorld-Verified | 29% | — |
| CodingDBRX Instruct wins | ||
| HumanEval | 70.1% | 92.1% |
| SWE-bench Pro | 48% | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | — | 70.0% |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 34% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 36% | — |
| OfficeQA Pro | 35% | — |
| Reasoning | ||
| LongBench v2 | 36% | — |
| MRCRv2 | 37% | — |
| gpqaDiamond | — | 66.5% |
| KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins | ||
| MMLU | 73.7% | 85.1% |
| FrontierScience | 52% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 80% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Multilingual | ||
| MMLU-ProX | 46% | — |
| Mathematics | ||
| MATH-500 | — | 97% |
| AIME 2025 | — | 80% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 73.3% |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | — | 74.2% |
Sarvam 30B is ahead overall, 48 to 41. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 70.1% and 92.1%.
Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 52. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DBRX Instruct has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 48 versus 34. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Sarvam 30B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 35.5 versus 34.3. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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