Grok 3 Mini 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

Grok 3 Mini· Sarvam 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 3 Mini 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.

Grok 3 Mini finishes one point ahead overall, 49 to 48. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Grok 3 Mini's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 41.5 against 34. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 78.9% to 80%. Sarvam 30B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Grok 3 Mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.30 input / $0.50 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. Grok 3 Mini gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for Sarvam 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderxAISarvam
Price$0.30 / $0.50Free*
Speed190 t/sN/A
TTFT0.54sN/A
Context128K64K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGrok 3 MiniSarvam 30B
Agentic
BrowseComp35.5%
CodingGrok 3 Mini wins
LiveCodeBench41.5%
HumanEval92.1%
LiveCodeBench v670.0%
SWE-bench Verified34%
Multimodal & Grounded
Coming soon
Reasoning
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
GPQA66.2%
MMLU-Pro78.9%80%
SimpleQA21.7%
MMLU85.1%
Instruction Following
Coming soon
Multilingual
Coming soon
Mathematics
AIME 202495.8%
MATH-50097%
AIME 202580%
HMMT Feb 202573.3%
HMMT Nov 202574.2%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Grok 3 Mini or Sarvam 30B?

Grok 3 Mini is ahead overall, 49 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 78.9% and 80%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 3 Mini or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 59.8. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 3 Mini or Sarvam 30B?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.5 versus 34. Sarvam 30B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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