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... Visit Krutrim India's first AI unicorn — multilingual LLMs and GPU cloud built for 1... Visit Sarvam AI India's sovereign LLM, built for 22 Indian languages Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.2 / 10 5.8 / 10 7.6 / 10
Capability 7.5 6.5 7.5
Value for money 8.5 6.5 8.5
Ease of use 5.5 5.5 7
ASEAN readiness 4 3.5 8
API quality 5 5 7
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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