DBRX Instruct 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

DBRX Instruct· Sarvam 30B

Quick Verdict

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.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K64K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkDBRX InstructSarvam 30B
AgenticSarvam 30B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.041%
BrowseComp31%35.5%
OSWorld-Verified29%
CodingDBRX Instruct wins
HumanEval70.1%92.1%
SWE-bench Pro48%
LiveCodeBench v670.0%
SWE-bench Verified34%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro36%
OfficeQA Pro35%
Reasoning
LongBench v236%
MRCRv237%
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
MMLU73.7%85.1%
FrontierScience52%
MMLU-Pro80%
Instruction Following
Coming soon
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX46%
Mathematics
MATH-50097%
AIME 202580%
HMMT Feb 202573.3%
HMMT Nov 202574.2%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, DBRX Instruct or Sarvam 30B?

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%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DBRX Instruct or Sarvam 30B?

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.

Which is better for coding, DBRX Instruct or Sarvam 30B?

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.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DBRX Instruct or Sarvam 30B?

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.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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