BharatGen Param2 vs Krutrim vs Sarvam AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
BharatGen Param2
India's sovereign 17B multilingual AI — 22 Indian languages, governmen...
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Sarvam AI
India's sovereign LLM, built for 22 Indian languages
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 5.8 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free for non-commercial research and academic use via Hugging Face | Chat interface free at chat.olakrutrim.com; cloud free access ran until Diwali 2025 | Open Apache-2.0 model weights (Sarvam-30B / 105B) |
| Paid from | Enterprise licensing (production/commercial) — pricing on inquiry via bharatgen.com | On-demand NVIDIA A100/H100 GPUs (A100 listed from ~Rs 105/hr; confirm on Krutrim Cloud) | API / enterprise (see Sarvam) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Research community early-access; ~29k model downloads on Hugging Face as of mid-2026 | 25+ enterprise customers; consumer app reached ~100K downloads before withdrawal (Apr 2026) | India's government-chosen sovereign LLM |
| Founded | 2024 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | BharatGen Technology Foundation (IIT Bombay / DST / IndiaAI Mission) | Krutrim SI Designs Pvt. Ltd. (Ola Group) | Sarvam AI |
| Verdict | BharatGen Param2 is a landmark achievement in sovereign AI development: a government-backed, IIT Bombay-led 17B MoE model that genuinely covers all 22 Scheduled Indian languages with a training corpus of 22 trillion toke... |
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... |
Sarvam AI is the standard-bearer for India's sovereign-AI ambitions — models trained from scratch on Indian compute, fluent across 22 Indian languages, and openly licensed under Apache-2.0 so anyone can build on them. Go... |
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