Llama 3 70B 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

Llama 3 70B· Sarvam 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Sarvam 30B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 3 70B only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.

Sarvam 30B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 48 to 44. 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 43.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 50% to 92.1%. Llama 3 70B does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Sarvam 30B 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. Llama 3 70B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for Sarvam 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

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

Decision framing

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BenchmarkLlama 3 70BSarvam 30B
AgenticLlama 3 70B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.037%
BrowseComp48%35.5%
OSWorld-Verified41%
CodingSarvam 30B wins
HumanEval50%92.1%
SWE-bench Verified9%34%
LiveCodeBench19%
SWE-bench Pro14%
LiveCodeBench v670.0%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro50%
OfficeQA Pro55%
Reasoning
MuSR54%
BBH74%
LongBench v261%
MRCRv261%
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
MMLU58%85.1%
GPQA58%
SuperGPQA56%
MMLU-Pro55%80%
HLE2%
FrontierScience54%
SimpleQA56%
Instruction Following
IFEval77%
Multilingual
MGSM72%
MMLU-ProX65%
MathematicsSarvam 30B wins
AIME 202358%
AIME 202460%
AIME 202559%80%
HMMT Feb 202354%
HMMT Feb 202456%
HMMT Feb 202555%
BRUMO 202557%
MATH-50071%97%
HMMT Feb 202573.3%
HMMT Nov 202574.2%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Llama 3 70B or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B is ahead overall, 48 to 44. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 50% and 92.1%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Llama 3 70B or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 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 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 34 versus 14.8. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Llama 3 70B or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86.5 versus 61.3. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Llama 3 70B or Sarvam 30B?

Llama 3 70B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 41.2 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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