BHASHINI vs Sarvam AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
| BH BHASHINI India's government platform for AI translation and speech in Indian la... Visit |
Sarvam AI
India's sovereign LLM, built for 22 Indian languages
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free API access for proof-of-concept only, after organisation registration and approval; production use requires a paid agreement | Open Apache-2.0 model weights (Sarvam-30B / 105B) |
| Paid from | Production or commercial API use: paid version, pricing on request from the Bhashini team | Sarvam 105B API from ₹29.28 per million input tokens |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | India's government-chosen sovereign LLM |
| Founded | 2022 | 2023 |
| Maker | Digital India Corporation (MeitY), Government of India | Sarvam AI |
| Verdict | BHASHINI is a serious public investment in Indian-language AI, with broad language coverage and real deployments across government services, from grievance redress to Aadhaar and railway enquiries. Its APIs are free only... |
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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