GPT-4 Turbo 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

GPT-4 Turbo· Sarvam 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Sarvam 30B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4 Turbo only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.

Sarvam 30B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 48 to 43. 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 42.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 52% to 92.1%. GPT-4 Turbo does hit back in agentic, 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 GPT-4 Turbo 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. GPT-4 Turbo gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for Sarvam 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderOpenAISarvam
PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed30 t/sN/A
TTFT2.84sN/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.

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboSarvam 30B
AgenticGPT-4 Turbo wins
Terminal-Bench 2.042%
BrowseComp54%35.5%
OSWorld-Verified41%
CodingSarvam 30B wins
HumanEval52%92.1%
SWE-bench Verified5%34%
SWE-bench Pro14%
LiveCodeBench v670.0%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro53%
OfficeQA Pro58%
Reasoning
MuSR56%
BBH75%
LongBench v262%
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
MMLU60%85.1%
GPQA60%
SuperGPQA58%
MMLU-Pro51%80%
HLE1%
FrontierScience52%
SimpleQA58%
Instruction Following
IFEval80%
Multilingual
MGSM75%
MMLU-ProX65%
MathematicsSarvam 30B wins
AIME 202360%
AIME 202462%
HMMT Feb 202557%
BRUMO 202559%
MATH-50097%
AIME 202580%
HMMT Feb 202573.3%
HMMT Nov 202574.2%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, GPT-4 Turbo or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B is ahead overall, 48 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 52% and 92.1%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GPT-4 Turbo or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 42.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GPT-4 Turbo or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 34 versus 10.6. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, GPT-4 Turbo or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86.5 versus 59. GPT-4 Turbo stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GPT-4 Turbo or Sarvam 30B?

GPT-4 Turbo has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.7 versus 35.5. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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