o3 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

o3· Sarvam 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick o3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Sarvam 30B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

o3 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.

o3's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 69.9 against 35.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BrowseComp, 75% to 35.5%. Sarvam 30B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

o3 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $10.00 input / $40.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Sarvam 30B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. o3 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 64K for Sarvam 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderOpenAISarvam
Price$10.00 / $40.00Free*
Speed118 t/sN/A
TTFT5.38sN/A
Context200K64K

Decision framing

BenchLM keeps the benchmark table and the operator tradeoffs on the same page so a better score does not hide a materially slower, pricier, or smaller-context model.

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.

Benchmarko3Sarvam 30B
Agentico3 wins
Terminal-Bench 2.071%
BrowseComp75%35.5%
OSWorld-Verified65%
Codingo3 wins
HumanEval78%92.1%
SWE-bench Verified71.7%34%
LiveCodeBench40%
SWE-bench Pro58%
LiveCodeBench v670.0%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro70%
OfficeQA Pro75%
VideoMMMU83.3%
Reasoning
MuSR82%
BBH86%
LongBench v282%
MRCRv281%
ARC-AGI-23%
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
MMLU86%85.1%
MMLU-Pro75%80%
HLE24%
FrontierScience77%
Instruction Following
IFEval85%
Multilingual
MGSM83%
MMLU-ProX80%
Mathematicso3 wins
AIME 202388%
AIME 202490%
AIME 202589%80%
HMMT Feb 202384%
HMMT Feb 202486%
HMMT Feb 202585%
BRUMO 202587%
MATH-50088%97%
HMMT Feb 202573.3%
HMMT Nov 202574.2%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, o3 or Sarvam 30B?

o3 is ahead overall, 64 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BrowseComp, where the scores are 75% and 35.5%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o3 or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 57. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o3 or Sarvam 30B?

o3 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 54.2 versus 34. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o3 or Sarvam 30B?

o3 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 88.1 versus 86.5. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o3 or Sarvam 30B?

o3 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.9 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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