Granite-4.0-1B 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

Granite-4.0-1B· Sarvam 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Sarvam 30B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B 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 36. 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 31.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 32.9% to 80%.

Sarvam 30B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Granite-4.0-1B 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. Granite-4.0-1B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for Sarvam 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

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

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-1BSarvam 30B
Agentic
BrowseComp35.5%
Coding
HumanEval73%92.1%
LiveCodeBench v670.0%
SWE-bench Verified34%
Multimodal & Grounded
Coming soon
Reasoning
BBH59.7%
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
MMLU59.7%85.1%
GPQA29.7%
MMLU-Pro32.9%80%
Instruction Following
IFEval78.5%
Multilingual
MGSM27.5%
Mathematics
MATH-50097%
AIME 202580%
HMMT Feb 202573.3%
HMMT Nov 202574.2%
Frequently Asked Questions (2)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-1B or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B is ahead overall, 48 to 36. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 32.9% and 80%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-1B or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 31.7. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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