Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
56
Winner · 1/8 categoriesSarvam 30B
48
3/8 categoriesGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite· Sarvam 30B
Pick Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Sarvam 30B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 56 to 48. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 49.2 against 35.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 55% to 92.1%. Sarvam 30B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.10 input / $0.40 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Sarvam 30B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Sarvam 30B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 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. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 64K for Sarvam 30B.
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| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | Sarvam 30B |
|---|---|---|
| AgenticGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite wins | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 47% | — |
| BrowseComp | 60% | 35.5% |
| OSWorld-Verified | 44% | — |
| CodingSarvam 30B wins | ||
| HumanEval | 55% | 92.1% |
| SWE-bench Verified | 22% | 34% |
| LiveCodeBench | 21% | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 29% | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | — | 70.0% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 74% | — |
| OfficeQA Pro | 72% | — |
| Reasoning | ||
| MuSR | 58% | — |
| BBH | 74% | — |
| LongBench v2 | 69% | — |
| MRCRv2 | 73% | — |
| gpqaDiamond | — | 66.5% |
| KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins | ||
| MMLU | 63% | 85.1% |
| GPQA | 62% | — |
| SuperGPQA | 60% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 63% | 80% |
| HLE | 1% | — |
| FrontierScience | 55% | — |
| SimpleQA | 60% | — |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | 79% | — |
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | 73% | — |
| MMLU-ProX | 68% | — |
| MathematicsSarvam 30B wins | ||
| AIME 2023 | 63% | — |
| AIME 2024 | 65% | — |
| AIME 2025 | 64% | 80% |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | 59% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | 61% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 60% | — |
| BRUMO 2025 | 62% | — |
| MATH-500 | 71% | 97% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 73.3% |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | — | 74.2% |
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is ahead overall, 56 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 55% and 92.1%.
Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 46.4. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Sarvam 30B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 34 versus 24.3. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Sarvam 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86.5 versus 65.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 49.2 versus 35.5. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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