Airavata vs Sarvam AI vs Krutrim
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Airavata
India's first open instruction-tuned Hindi LLM, built by IIT Madras's...
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Sarvam AI
India's sovereign LLM, built for 22 Indian languages
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 5.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Fully free — open weights on HuggingFace, no rate limits | Open Apache-2.0 model weights (Sarvam-30B / 105B) | Chat interface free at chat.olakrutrim.com; cloud free access ran until Diwali 2025 |
| Paid from | No paid tier; self-host or run via local inference (vLLM, Ollama, LM Studio) | API / enterprise (see Sarvam) | On-demand NVIDIA A100/H100 GPUs (A100 listed from ~Rs 105/hr; confirm on Krutrim Cloud) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Research and developer community; open-weights model on HuggingFace | India's government-chosen sovereign LLM | 25+ enterprise customers; consumer app reached ~100K downloads before withdrawal (Apr 2026) |
| Founded | 2020 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | AI4Bharat / IIT Madras (Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat) | Sarvam AI | Krutrim SI Designs Pvt. Ltd. (Ola Group) |
| Verdict | Airavata is a landmark academic contribution that demonstrates how a well-curated, license-clean instruction dataset can lift a 7B Hindi model above much larger commercial models on naturalness — a result that matters en... |
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... |
Krutrim made genuine history as India's first AI unicorn and its Krutrim-2 model delivers real multilingual capability across 22 Indian languages — benchmarking competitively against much larger open-source models on Ind... |
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