Mistral Small 4 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

Mistral Small 4· Sarvam 105B

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral Small 4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Sarvam 105B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Mistral Small 4 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 62 versus 60. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Sarvam 105B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Mistral Small 4 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. Mistral Small 4 gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Sarvam 105B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
Speed175 t/sN/A
TTFT0.64sN/A
Context256K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkMistral Small 4Sarvam 105B
Agentic
BrowseComp49.5%
Coding
HumanEval84.8%
LiveCodeBench v671.7%
SWE-bench Verified45%
Multimodal & Grounded
Coming soon
Reasoning
gpqaDiamond78.7%
hle11.2%
KnowledgeSarvam 105B wins
GPQA45.3%
MMLU-Pro66.3%81.7%
MMLU90.6%
Instruction FollowingSarvam 105B wins
IFEval82.9%84.8%
Multilingual
Coming soon
Mathematics
MATH-50098.6%
AIME 202588.3%
HMMT Feb 202585.8%
HMMT Nov 202585.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Mistral Small 4 or Sarvam 105B?

Mistral Small 4 is ahead overall, 62 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 66.3% and 81.7%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mistral Small 4 or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 58.9. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Mistral Small 4 or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84.8 versus 82.9. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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