DeepSeek LLM 2.0 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

DeepSeek LLM 2.0· Sarvam 105B

Quick Verdict

Pick Sarvam 105B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek LLM 2.0 only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Sarvam 105B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 60 versus 57. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Sarvam 105B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 81.7 against 59.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MATH-500, 83% to 98.6%. DeepSeek LLM 2.0 does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Sarvam 105B is the reasoning model in the pair, while DeepSeek LLM 2.0 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.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkDeepSeek LLM 2.0Sarvam 105B
AgenticDeepSeek LLM 2.0 wins
Terminal-Bench 2.057%
BrowseComp49.5%
CodingSarvam 105B wins
HumanEval73%
SWE-bench Verified46%45%
LiveCodeBench39%
SWE-bench Pro46%
LiveCodeBench v671.7%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro60%
OfficeQA Pro70%
Reasoning
BBH81%
gpqaDiamond78.7%
hle11.2%
KnowledgeSarvam 105B wins
MMLU79%90.6%
GPQA78%
SuperGPQA76%
MMLU-Pro72%81.7%
HLE12%
FrontierScience67%
SimpleQA77%
Instruction FollowingDeepSeek LLM 2.0 wins
IFEval85%84.8%
Multilingual
Coming soon
MathematicsSarvam 105B wins
AIME 202380%
AIME 202482%
AIME 202581%88.3%
HMMT Feb 202376%
HMMT Feb 202478%
HMMT Feb 202577%
MATH-50083%98.6%
HMMT Feb 202585.8%
HMMT Nov 202585.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (6)

Which is better, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B is ahead overall, 60 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MATH-500, where the scores are 83% and 98.6%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 59.1. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 45 versus 43.3. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 92.3 versus 81.8. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Sarvam 105B?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57 versus 49.5. Sarvam 105B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Sarvam 105B?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 84.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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