GPT-4o 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-4o· Sarvam 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-4o 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.

GPT-4o has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 50 versus 48. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

GPT-4o's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 48.5 against 35.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 58% 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.

GPT-4o is also the more expensive model on tokens at $2.50 input / $10.00 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 GPT-4o 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-4o gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for Sarvam 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderOpenAISarvam
Price$2.50 / $10.00Free*
Speed131 t/sN/A
TTFT0.81sN/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-4oSarvam 30B
AgenticGPT-4o wins
Terminal-Bench 2.049%
OSWorld-Verified48%
BrowseComp35.5%
CodingSarvam 30B wins
HumanEval58%92.1%
SWE-bench Verified20%34%
LiveCodeBench38%
SWE-bench Pro29%
LiveCodeBench v670.0%
Multimodal & Grounded
OfficeQA Pro70%
VideoMMMU61.2%
Reasoning
MuSR62%
BBH82%
LongBench v262%
MRCRv263%
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
MMLU66%85.1%
GPQA66%
MMLU-Pro64%80%
HLE1%
FrontierScience58%
Instruction Following
IFEval82%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX72%
MathematicsSarvam 30B wins
AIME 202366%
AIME 202468%
AIME 202567%80%
HMMT Feb 202362%
HMMT Feb 202464%
BRUMO 202565%
MATH-50097%
HMMT Feb 202573.3%
HMMT Nov 202574.2%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

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

GPT-4o is ahead overall, 50 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 58% and 92.1%.

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

Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 43.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Sarvam 30B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 34 versus 30.4. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Sarvam 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86.5 versus 66.1. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

GPT-4o has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.5 versus 35.5. Sarvam 30B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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