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
Hangzhou lab shipping MIT-licensed V4 models and a very cheap API
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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 chat on the web and in the app; MIT-licensed open weights to self-host |
| Paid from | Sarvam 105B API from ₹29.28 per million input tokens | $0.15 per 1M input tokens (deepseek-flash, cache miss, off-peak); $0.30 at peak |
| 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 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... |
DeepSeek remains the price benchmark for capable models: V4.1-Flash costs $0.15 to $0.30 per million input tokens and V4-Pro under $4 per million output at peak, both with 1M-token context, and the weights are MIT-licens... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.