Sarvam AI vs Qwen
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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Qwen
Alibaba's LLM family — open-weight Qwen3 plus the proprietary Qwen3.7-...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Open Apache-2.0 model weights (Sarvam-30B / 105B) | Open-weight Qwen3 models free to download and self-host |
| Paid from | API / enterprise (see Sarvam) | Qwen3 Max preview API priced per-token on Alibaba Cloud |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | India's government-chosen sovereign LLM | Consumer app ~203M MAU (April 2026), #3 globally |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Sarvam AI | Alibaba Group |
| 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... |
Qwen is Alibaba's flagship LLM family and a cornerstone of the global open-weight ecosystem, with freely downloadable Qwen3 models spanning small to large MoE sizes. Capability is frontier-adjacent on coding, reasoning a... |
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