Claude Sonnet 4 vs Sarvam 105B
Wins 5 of 6 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Facts · Long documents · Following instructions
Wins 1 of 6 areas
Agents
Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger all-rounder.Sarvam 105B is cheaper and better at agents.
Scores updated · 23 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the six areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- CodingWriting and fixing software31Claude Sonnet 43 of 4 tests
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up20Claude Sonnet 42 of 2 tests
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking10Claude Sonnet 41 of 3 tests · 2 ties
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts10Claude Sonnet 41 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked10Claude Sonnet 41 of 1 test
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own02Sarvam 105B2 of 2 tests
Long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
Sarvam 105B costs 99% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The three tests each model wins by the widest margin. Scores are out of 100.
Where Claude Sonnet 4 pulls ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+64.3points ahead
- Hard command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench Hard+29.6points ahead
- Fixes real GitHub issues in Python projectsSWE-bench Verified+27.7points ahead
Where Sarvam 105B pulls ahead
- Finds hard-to-locate facts by browsing the webBrowseComp+37.3points ahead
- Recent programming contest problemsLiveCodeBench v6+23.2points ahead
- Real work tasks from 44 professionsGDPVal+2.2points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 23 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingClaude Sonnet 4
- Terminal-Bench HardClaude Sonnet 4 by 29.631.11.5+29.6
- SWE-bench VerifiedClaude Sonnet 4 by 27.772.745+27.7
- LiveCodeBench v6Sarvam 105B by 23.248.571.7+23.2
- SciCodeClaude Sonnet 4 by 13.64026.4+13.6
AgentsSarvam 105B
- BrowseCompSarvam 105B by 37.312.249.5+37.3
- GDPValSarvam 105B by 2.29.711.9+2.2
ReasoningClaude Sonnet 4
- GPQA DiamondClaude Sonnet 4 by 3.977.773.8+3.9
- CritPttie0.30tie
- Humanity's Last Examtie10.711tie
FactsClaude Sonnet 4
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationClaude Sonnet 4 by 64.370.96.6+64.3
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyClaude Sonnet 4 by 5.122.717.6+5.1
Following instructionsClaude Sonnet 4
- IFBenchClaude Sonnet 4 by 20.354.734.4+20.3
Other results10 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- HMMT 2025Sarvam 105B by 69.915.985.8+69.9
- AA-OmniscienceClaude Sonnet 4 by 59.60.2-59.4+59.6
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexClaude Sonnet 4 by 27.837.69.8+27.8
- AIME 2025Sarvam 105B by 26.270.596.7+26.2
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Claude Sonnet 4 by 17.864.646.8+17.8
- AA IntelligenceClaude Sonnet 4 by 10.118.98.8+10.1
- AA Agentic IndexSarvam 105B by 7.117.624.7+7.1
- MATH-500 (EM)Sarvam 105B by 4.69498.6+4.6
- IFEvalClaude Sonnet 4 by 2.887.684.8+2.8
- MMLU-ProClaude Sonnet 4 by 283.781.7+2
Questions people ask
Which is better, Claude Sonnet 4 or Sarvam 105B?
Claude Sonnet 4 wins five of the six areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, facts, long documents and following instructions. Sarvam 105B wins agents, and costs 99% less.
Which is better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 4. It wins 3 of the 4 coding tests both models report; Sarvam 105B wins 1.
Which is cheaper?
Claude Sonnet 4 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens; Sarvam 105B costs $0.04 and $0.17. That makes Sarvam 105B about 99% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 23 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 13 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 10 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.