Kimi K2.5 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

Kimi K2.5· Sarvam 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K2.5 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.

Kimi K2.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 72 to 48. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Kimi K2.5's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 66.7 against 34. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 76.8% to 34%. Sarvam 30B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Kimi K2.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.50 input / $2.80 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 Kimi K2.5 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. Kimi K2.5 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for Sarvam 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

Price$0.50 / $2.80Free*
Speed45 t/sN/A
TTFT2.38sN/A
Context128K64K

Decision framing

BenchLM keeps the benchmark table and the operator tradeoffs on the same page so a better score does not hide a materially slower, pricier, or smaller-context model.

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.

BenchmarkKimi K2.5Sarvam 30B
AgenticKimi K2.5 wins
Terminal-Bench 2.050.8%
BrowseComp60.6%35.5%
OSWorld-Verified63.3%
Claw-Eval52.9%
QwenClawBench54.3%
QwenWebBench1160
TAU3-Bench65.7%
VITA-Bench36.0%
DeepPlanning14.4%
Toolathlon27.8%
MCP Atlas29.5%
MCP-Tasks59.1%
WideResearch72.7%
BrowseComp-VL42.9%
OSWorld63.3%
Tau2-Airline80.0%
Tau2-Telecom95.9%
BFCL v468.3%
AndroidWorld43.1%
WebVoyager84.3%
CodingKimi K2.5 wins
HumanEval99%92.1%
SWE-bench Verified76.8%34%
SWE-bench Verified*70.8%
LiveCodeBench85%
LiveCodeBench v685.6%70.0%
SWE-bench Pro53.8%
SWE Multilingual73%
SWE-Rebench58.5%
React Native Evals74.9%
NL2Repo32%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU84.3%
MMMU-Pro78.5%
OfficeQA Pro69%
RealWorldQA81.0%
OmniDocBench 1.588.8%
Video-MME (with subtitle)87.4%
Video-MME (w/o subtitle)83.2%
MathVision84.2%
We-Math84.7%
DynaMath84.4%
MStar80.5%
Design2Code91.3%
Flame-VLM-Code88.8%
Vision2Web33.2%
ImageMining24.4%
MMSearch58.7%
MMSearch-Plus25.6%
SimpleVQA71.2%
ChatCVQA77.5%
MMLongBench-Doc58.5%
CC-OCR79.7%
AI2D_TEST90.8%
CountBench94.1%
RefCOCO (avg)87.8%
VideoMMMU86.6%
MLVU (M-Avg)85.0%
Facts-VLM57.8%
V*84.3%
Reasoning
MuSR72%
BBH81%
LongBench v261%
MRCRv270%
AI-Needle70%
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
MMLU77%85.1%
GPQA87.6%
GPQA-D86.9%
SuperGPQA69.2%
MMLU-Pro87.1%80%
MMLU-Pro (Arcee)87.1%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval94%
HLE30.1%
FrontierScience67%
SimpleQA74%
Instruction Following
IFEval93.9%
IFBench70.2%
Multilingual
MGSM83%
MMLU-ProX82.3%
NOVA-6356.0%
INCLUDE83.3%
PolyMath43.1%
VWT2k-lite77.6%
MAXIFE72.8%
MathematicsSarvam 30B wins
AIME 202377%
AIME 202479%
AIME 202578%80%
AIME2695.8%
AIME25 (Arcee)96.3%
HMMT Feb 202373%
HMMT Feb 202475%
HMMT Feb 202574%
HMMT Feb 202595.4%73.3%
HMMT Nov 202591.1%74.2%
HMMT Feb 202687.1%
MMAnswerBench81.8%
BRUMO 202576%
MATH-50082%97%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Kimi K2.5 or Sarvam 30B?

Kimi K2.5 is ahead overall, 72 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 76.8% and 34%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Kimi K2.5 or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 66.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Kimi K2.5 or Sarvam 30B?

Kimi K2.5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.7 versus 34. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Kimi K2.5 or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86.5 versus 78.3. Inside this category, HMMT Feb 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Kimi K2.5 or Sarvam 30B?

Kimi K2.5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.6 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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