Nemotron Ultra 253B 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

Nemotron Ultra 253B· Sarvam 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Sarvam 30B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron Ultra 253B only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority.

Sarvam 30B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 48 to 41. 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 42.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 41% to 92.1%. Nemotron Ultra 253B does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Sarvam 30B gives you the larger context window at 64K, compared with 32K for Nemotron Ultra 253B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderNVIDIASarvam
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K64K

Decision framing

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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.

BenchmarkNemotron Ultra 253BSarvam 30B
AgenticNemotron Ultra 253B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.046%
BrowseComp50%35.5%
OSWorld-Verified45%
CodingSarvam 30B wins
HumanEval41%92.1%
SWE-bench Verified31%34%
LiveCodeBench30%
SWE-bench Pro38%
LiveCodeBench v670.0%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro37%
OfficeQA Pro54%
Reasoning
MuSR45%
BBH77%
LongBench v255%
MRCRv256%
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
MMLU49%85.1%
GPQA48%
SuperGPQA46%
MMLU-Pro63%80%
HLE11%
FrontierScience49%
SimpleQA47%
Instruction Following
IFEval78%
Multilingual
MGSM74%
MMLU-ProX68%
MathematicsSarvam 30B wins
AIME 202349%
AIME 202451%
AIME 202550%80%
HMMT Feb 202345%
HMMT Feb 202447%
HMMT Feb 202546%
BRUMO 202548%
MATH-50074%97%
HMMT Feb 202573.3%
HMMT Nov 202574.2%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Nemotron Ultra 253B or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B is ahead overall, 48 to 41. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 41% and 92.1%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron Ultra 253B or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 42.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron Ultra 253B or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 34 versus 33.3. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron Ultra 253B or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86.5 versus 55.3. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron Ultra 253B or Sarvam 30B?

Nemotron Ultra 253B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 46.7 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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