Sarvam AI vs DeepSeek
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Sarvam AI
India's sovereign LLM, built for 22 Indian languages
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DeepSeek
China's frontier open-weight LLM lab — now shipping the V4 family at a...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Open Apache-2.0 model weights (Sarvam-30B / 105B) | Free access at chat.deepseek.com; open weights self-hostable |
| Paid from | API / enterprise (see Sarvam) | V4-Flash $0.14/$0.28 per 1M tokens (in/out); V4-Pro $0.435/$0.87 promotional (standard ~$1.74/$3.48) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | India's government-chosen sovereign LLM | ~130M monthly active users (late 2025) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Sarvam AI | High-Flyer |
| Verdict | 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... |
DeepSeek is the Chinese lab whose open-weight models repeatedly shock the market by matching far costlier frontier systems at a fraction of the price. The 2026 V4 family (V4-Pro and the cheaper V4-Flash, both 1M-context)... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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