Granite-4.0-350M vs Sarvam 105B

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-4.0-350M· Sarvam 105B

Quick Verdict

Pick Sarvam 105B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-350M only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Sarvam 105B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 24. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Sarvam 105B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 81.7 against 18.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 14.4% to 81.7%.

Sarvam 105B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Granite-4.0-350M 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. Sarvam 105B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Granite-4.0-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMSarvam
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-350MSarvam 105B
Agentic
BrowseComp49.5%
Coding
HumanEval38%
LiveCodeBench v671.7%
SWE-bench Verified45%
Multimodal & Grounded
Coming soon
Reasoning
BBH33.3%
gpqaDiamond78.7%
hle11.2%
KnowledgeSarvam 105B wins
MMLU36.2%90.6%
GPQA26.1%
MMLU-Pro14.4%81.7%
Instruction FollowingSarvam 105B wins
IFEval61.6%84.8%
Multilingual
MGSM16.2%
Mathematics
MATH-50098.6%
AIME 202588.3%
HMMT Feb 202585.8%
HMMT Nov 202585.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-350M or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B is ahead overall, 60 to 24. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 14.4% and 81.7%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-350M or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 18.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Granite-4.0-350M or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84.8 versus 61.6. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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