Krutrim vs ChatGPT vs Google Gemini vs Sarvam AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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ChatGPT
The most widely used AI assistant — now powered by GPT-5.5, from OpenA...
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Google Gemini
Google's flagship multimodal AI — the Gemini 3 family across Search, W...
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Sarvam AI
India's sovereign LLM, built for 22 Indian languages
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5.8 / 10 | 9.2 / 10 | 8.7 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Chat interface free at chat.olakrutrim.com; cloud free access ran until Diwali 2025 | GPT-5-class model with daily message limits | Free access to Gemini (3.5 Flash, limited 3.1 Pro) on web and mobile | Open Apache-2.0 model weights (Sarvam-30B / 105B) |
| Paid from | On-demand NVIDIA A100/H100 GPUs (A100 listed from ~Rs 105/hr; confirm on Krutrim Cloud) | $20/month (Plus); free, Go, Pro, and Team/Enterprise tiers also offered | Free tier; Google AI Plus ~$7.99/mo, AI Pro $19.99/mo, AI Ultra from ~$99.99/mo | API / enterprise (see Sarvam) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 25+ enterprise customers; consumer app reached ~100K downloads before withdrawal (Apr 2026) | ~900M weekly active users (1B+ monthly active app users as of mid-2026) | Hundreds of millions via Google products | India's government-chosen sovereign LLM |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Krutrim SI Designs Pvt. Ltd. (Ola Group) | OpenAI | Google / Alphabet | Sarvam AI |
| Verdict | 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... |
ChatGPT remains the default AI assistant for most people — the broadest feature set of any product (voice, vision, web browsing, Codex agents, custom GPTs) and by far the largest user base. The current GPT-5.5 flagship i... |
Gemini is one of the three frontier chat assistants alongside ChatGPT and Claude. The Gemini 3 family brings genuinely strong multimodal reasoning, very large context windows, and the tightest integration with Workspace,... |
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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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.