DeepSeek V3.1 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

DeepSeek V3.1· Sarvam 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Sarvam 30B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3.1 only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 128K context window 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 30.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 25% to 92.1%.

Sarvam 30B is the reasoning model in the pair, while DeepSeek V3.1 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. DeepSeek V3.1 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for Sarvam 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K64K

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.

BenchmarkDeepSeek V3.1Sarvam 30B
AgenticSarvam 30B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.029%
BrowseComp39%35.5%
OSWorld-Verified33%
CodingSarvam 30B wins
HumanEval25%92.1%
SWE-bench Verified13%34%
LiveCodeBench15%
SWE-bench Pro15%
LiveCodeBench v670.0%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro35%
OfficeQA Pro45%
Reasoning
MuSR29%
BBH61%
LongBench v246%
MRCRv248%
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
MMLU33%85.1%
GPQA32%
SuperGPQA30%
MMLU-Pro53%80%
HLE2%
FrontierScience37%
SimpleQA31%
Instruction Following
IFEval67%
Multilingual
MGSM64%
MMLU-ProX59%
MathematicsSarvam 30B wins
AIME 202333%
AIME 202435%
AIME 202534%80%
HMMT Feb 202329%
HMMT Feb 202431%
HMMT Feb 202530%
BRUMO 202532%
MATH-50059%97%
HMMT Feb 202573.3%
HMMT Nov 202574.2%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, DeepSeek V3.1 or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B is ahead overall, 48 to 41. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 25% and 92.1%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3.1 or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 30.3. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3.1 or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 34 versus 14.5. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, DeepSeek V3.1 or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86.5 versus 39.6. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeek V3.1 or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 35.5 versus 32.9. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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