Hanooman vs Krutrim vs Sarvam AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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India's sovereign LLM, built for 22 Indian languages
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| RECATOOLS Score | 3.5 / 10 | 5.8 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Web and Android app free; no credit card required at launch | 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 | Free consumer tier; enterprise/API pricing not publicly disclosed | 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 | Actual user figures not publicly disclosed | 25+ enterprise customers; consumer app reached ~100K downloads before withdrawal (Apr 2026) | India's government-chosen sovereign LLM |
| Founded | 2024 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | 3AI Holding Limited / SML India (50-50 joint venture) | Krutrim SI Designs Pvt. Ltd. (Ola Group) | Sarvam AI |
| Verdict | Note: Hanooman's consumer app was delisted from Google Play in October 2025 and Tracxn lists the company as deadpooled; current operating status is unconfirmed.Hanooman looked like a serious entry in 2024: four open... |
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 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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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.