Qwen3 235B 2507 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

Qwen3 235B 2507· Sarvam 105B

Quick Verdict

Pick Sarvam 105B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3 235B 2507 only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Sarvam 105B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 47. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Sarvam 105B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 92.3 against 55.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 39% to 90.6%. Qwen3 235B 2507 does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Sarvam 105B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Qwen3 235B 2507 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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BenchmarkQwen3 235B 2507Sarvam 105B
AgenticSarvam 105B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.033%
BrowseComp40%49.5%
OSWorld-Verified30%
CodingSarvam 105B wins
HumanEval31%
SWE-bench Verified15%45%
LiveCodeBench51.8%
SWE-bench Pro19%
LiveCodeBench v671.7%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro38%
OfficeQA Pro46%
Reasoning
MuSR35%
BBH60%
LongBench v252%
MRCRv252%
gpqaDiamond78.7%
hle11.2%
KnowledgeSarvam 105B wins
MMLU39%90.6%
GPQA77.5%
SuperGPQA62.6%
MMLU-Pro83%81.7%
HLE1%
FrontierScience39%
SimpleQA54.3%
Instruction FollowingQwen3 235B 2507 wins
IFEval88.7%84.8%
Multilingual
MGSM63%
MMLU-ProX79.4%
MathematicsSarvam 105B wins
AIME 202339%
AIME 202441%
AIME 202570.3%88.3%
HMMT Feb 202335%
HMMT Feb 202437%
HMMT Feb 202536%
BRUMO 202538%
MATH-50057%98.6%
HMMT Feb 202585.8%
HMMT Nov 202585.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (6)

Which is better, Qwen3 235B 2507 or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B is ahead overall, 60 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 39% and 90.6%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen3 235B 2507 or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 49.4. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Qwen3 235B 2507 or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 45 versus 30.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Qwen3 235B 2507 or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 92.3 versus 55.7. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Qwen3 235B 2507 or Sarvam 105B?

Sarvam 105B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 49.5 versus 33.7. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Qwen3 235B 2507 or Sarvam 105B?

Qwen3 235B 2507 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88.7 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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