DeepSeek vs Sarvam AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
DeepSeek
China's frontier open-weight LLM lab — now shipping the V4 family at a...
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Sarvam AI
India's sovereign LLM, built for 22 Indian languages
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.2 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free access at chat.deepseek.com; open weights self-hostable | Open Apache-2.0 model weights (Sarvam-30B / 105B) |
| Paid from | V4-Flash $0.14/$0.28; V4-Pro $0.435/$0.87 per 1M tokens (now permanent, not promo) | API / enterprise (see Sarvam) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | ~130M monthly active users (late 2025) | India's government-chosen sovereign LLM |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | High-Flyer | Sarvam AI |
| Verdict | DeepSeek is the Chinese lab whose open-weight models repeatedly shock the market by matching far costlier frontier systems at a fraction of the price. The 2026 V4 family (V4-Pro and the cheaper V4-Flash, both 1M-context)... |
Sarvam is the most credible vehicle for India's sovereign-AI push: Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B were trained end-to-end on IndiaAI compute, cover 22 Indian languages, and ship under Apache-2.0, so builders can self-host wi... |
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