Llama 3 70B 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

Llama 3 70B· Sarvam 105B

Quick Verdict

Pick Sarvam 105B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 3 70B 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 44. 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 43.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 9% to 45%.

Sarvam 105B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Llama 3 70B 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.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderMetaSarvam
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkLlama 3 70BSarvam 105B
AgenticSarvam 105B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.037%
BrowseComp48%49.5%
OSWorld-Verified41%
CodingSarvam 105B wins
HumanEval50%
SWE-bench Verified9%45%
LiveCodeBench19%
SWE-bench Pro14%
LiveCodeBench v671.7%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro50%
OfficeQA Pro55%
Reasoning
MuSR54%
BBH74%
LongBench v261%
MRCRv261%
gpqaDiamond78.7%
hle11.2%
KnowledgeSarvam 105B wins
MMLU58%90.6%
GPQA58%
SuperGPQA56%
MMLU-Pro55%81.7%
HLE2%
FrontierScience54%
SimpleQA56%
Instruction FollowingSarvam 105B wins
IFEval77%84.8%
Multilingual
MGSM72%
MMLU-ProX65%
MathematicsSarvam 105B wins
AIME 202358%
AIME 202460%
AIME 202559%88.3%
HMMT Feb 202354%
HMMT Feb 202456%
HMMT Feb 202555%
BRUMO 202557%
MATH-50071%98.6%
HMMT Feb 202585.8%
HMMT Nov 202585.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (6)

Which is better, Llama 3 70B or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B is ahead overall, 60 to 44. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 9% and 45%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Llama 3 70B or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 43.2. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Llama 3 70B or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 45 versus 14.8. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Llama 3 70B or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 92.3 versus 61.3. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Llama 3 70B or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 49.5 versus 41.2. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Llama 3 70B or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84.8 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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