Qwen2.5-72B 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

Qwen2.5-72B· Sarvam 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen2.5-72B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Sarvam 30B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Qwen2.5-72B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 48. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen2.5-72B's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 57.7 against 35.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BrowseComp, 64% 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.

Sarvam 30B 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. Qwen2.5-72B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for Sarvam 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K64K

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 30B
AgenticQwen2.5-72B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.056%
BrowseComp64%35.5%
OSWorld-Verified55%
CodingQwen2.5-72B wins
HumanEval75%92.1%
SWE-bench Verified46%34%
LiveCodeBench40%
SWE-bench Pro47%
LiveCodeBench v670.0%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro64%
OfficeQA Pro70%
Reasoning
MuSR78%
BBH81%
LongBench v272%
MRCRv271%
gpqaDiamond66.5%
KnowledgeSarvam 30B wins
MMLU83%85.1%
GPQA82%
SuperGPQA80%
MMLU-Pro75%80%
HLE11%
FrontierScience70%
SimpleQA80%
Instruction Following
IFEval85%
Multilingual
MGSM84%
MMLU-ProX79%
MathematicsSarvam 30B wins
AIME 202384%
AIME 202486%
AIME 202585%80%
HMMT Feb 202380%
HMMT Feb 202482%
HMMT Feb 202581%
BRUMO 202583%
MATH-50084%97%
HMMT Feb 202573.3%
HMMT Nov 202574.2%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Qwen2.5-72B or Sarvam 30B?

Qwen2.5-72B is ahead overall, 60 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BrowseComp, where the scores are 64% and 35.5%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen2.5-72B or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 61.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Qwen2.5-72B or Sarvam 30B?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.1 versus 34. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Qwen2.5-72B or Sarvam 30B?

Sarvam 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86.5 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 30B?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.7 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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