Qwen2.5-72B 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

Qwen2.5-72B· Sarvam 105B

Quick Verdict

Treat this as a split decision. Qwen2.5-72B makes more sense if agentic is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model; Sarvam 105B is the better fit if knowledge is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Qwen2.5-72B and Sarvam 105B finish on the same overall score, so this is less about a single winner and more about where the edge shows up. The headline says tie; the benchmark table is where the real choice happens.

Sarvam 105B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Qwen2.5-72B 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.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K128K

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.

BenchmarkQwen2.5-72BSarvam 105B
AgenticQwen2.5-72B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.056%
BrowseComp64%49.5%
OSWorld-Verified55%
CodingSarvam 105B wins
HumanEval75%
SWE-bench Verified46%45%
LiveCodeBench40%
SWE-bench Pro47%
LiveCodeBench v671.7%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro64%
OfficeQA Pro70%
Reasoning
MuSR78%
BBH81%
LongBench v272%
MRCRv271%
gpqaDiamond78.7%
hle11.2%
KnowledgeSarvam 105B wins
MMLU83%90.6%
GPQA82%
SuperGPQA80%
MMLU-Pro75%81.7%
HLE11%
FrontierScience70%
SimpleQA80%
Instruction FollowingQwen2.5-72B wins
IFEval85%84.8%
Multilingual
MGSM84%
MMLU-ProX79%
MathematicsSarvam 105B wins
AIME 202384%
AIME 202486%
AIME 202585%88.3%
HMMT Feb 202380%
HMMT Feb 202482%
HMMT Feb 202581%
BRUMO 202583%
MATH-50084%98.6%
HMMT Feb 202585.8%
HMMT Nov 202585.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (6)

Which is better, Qwen2.5-72B or Sarvam 105B?

Qwen2.5-72B and Sarvam 105B are tied on overall score, so the right pick depends on which category matters most for your use case.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen2.5-72B or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 61.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Qwen2.5-72B or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 45 versus 44.1. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Qwen2.5-72B or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 92.3 versus 84.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Qwen2.5-72B or Sarvam 105B?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.7 versus 49.5. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Qwen2.5-72B or Sarvam 105B?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 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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