Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) 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

Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning)· Sarvam 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Sarvam 30B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.

Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 48. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 63.6 against 34. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2025, 83.8% 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.

Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 64K for Sarvam 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context256K64K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkMistral Small 4 (Reasoning)Sarvam 30B
Agentic
BrowseComp35.5%
CodingMistral Small 4 (Reasoning) wins
LiveCodeBench63.6%
HumanEval92.1%
LiveCodeBench v670.0%
SWE-bench Verified34%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro60%
Reasoning
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
GPQA71.2%
MMLU-Pro78%80%
MMLU85.1%
Instruction Following
Coming soon
Multilingual
Coming soon
MathematicsSarvam 30B wins
AIME 202583.8%80%
MATH-50097%
HMMT Feb 202573.3%
HMMT Nov 202574.2%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) or Sarvam 30B?

Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 64 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2025, where the scores are 83.8% and 80%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 75.6. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) or Sarvam 30B?

Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 34. Sarvam 30B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for math, Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86.5 versus 83.8. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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