o3-mini 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

o3-mini· Sarvam 105B

Quick Verdict

Pick o3-mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Sarvam 105B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

o3-mini is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 65 to 60. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o3-mini's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 66.6 against 49.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BrowseComp, 74% to 49.5%. Sarvam 105B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

o3-mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.10 input / $4.40 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Sarvam 105B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. o3-mini gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Sarvam 105B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderOpenAISarvam
Price$1.10 / $4.40Free*
Speed160 t/sN/A
TTFT7.12sN/A
Context200K128K

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.

Benchmarko3-miniSarvam 105B
Agentico3-mini wins
Terminal-Bench 2.067%
BrowseComp74%49.5%
OSWorld-Verified61%
Codingo3-mini wins
SWE-bench Verified49.3%45%
SWE-bench Pro57%
LiveCodeBench v671.7%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro73%
OfficeQA Pro76%
Reasoning
LongBench v282%
MRCRv280%
gpqaDiamond78.7%
hle11.2%
KnowledgeSarvam 105B wins
MMLU86.9%90.6%
GPQA77.2%
FrontierScience66%
MMLU-Pro81.7%
Instruction Followingo3-mini wins
IFEval93.9%84.8%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX73%
Mathematics
AIME 202487.3%
MATH-50098.6%
AIME 202588.3%
HMMT Feb 202585.8%
HMMT Nov 202585.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, o3-mini or Sarvam 105B?

o3-mini is ahead overall, 65 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BrowseComp, where the scores are 74% and 49.5%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o3-mini or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 70.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o3-mini or Sarvam 105B?

o3-mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 54.1 versus 45. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o3-mini or Sarvam 105B?

o3-mini has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.6 versus 49.5. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o3-mini or Sarvam 105B?

o3-mini has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93.9 versus 84.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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