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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Sarvam-30B

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 58.3 to 19.5.

Anthropic · Sarvam AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 58.3 to 19.5, ranking #2 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude Sonnet 5.5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 58.3 and ranks #2 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Sarvam-30B

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic
Sarvam-30B
Sarvam AI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
58.3
#2
19.5
#218
Reasoning
56.8
#2
19.3
#216
Coding
48.6
#2
5.9
#207
Agents
42.5
#3
-1.4
#193
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$2.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$10.00 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Sarvam-30B
Math
37.6#30
23.6#131
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

47 reported for Claude Sonnet 5.5 · 14 for Sarvam-30B

No common benchmarks found

Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Sarvam-30Bdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Sarvam AI
Sarvam-30B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Thu Oct 08 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Claude Sonnet 5.5 supports multimodal inputs, whereas Sarvam-30B does not.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Sarvam-30B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while Sarvam-30B uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Proprietary

Closed source

Sarvam-30B

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Sonnet 5.5 was released on 2026-09-28, while Sarvam-30B was released on 2026-03-06.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is 7 months newer than Sarvam-30B.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Sep 28, 2026

1 weeks ago

6mo newer
Sarvam-30B

Mar 6, 2026

7 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while Sarvam-30B's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Claude Sonnet 5.5's training data extends to 2026-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Sarvam-30B's cutoff date.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Jun 2026

Sarvam-30B

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Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Sarvam-30B side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Sonnet 5.5
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Sarvam-30B
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Sarvam-30B.

Which is better, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Sarvam-30B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 58.3 to 19.5. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is made by Anthropic and Sarvam-30B is made by Sarvam AI. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude Sonnet 5.5 compare to Sarvam-30B in benchmarks?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores BenchCAD (with Python tool): 96.3%, ArXivMath (with tools): 95.2%, Global-MMLU: 92.1%, MILU: 91.6%, SWE-bench Multilingual: 90.3%. Sarvam-30B scores MATH-500: 97.0%, AIME 2025: 96.7%, MBPP: 92.7%, HumanEval: 92.1%, MMLU: 85.1%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Sarvam-30B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 supports 1.0M tokens and Sarvam-30B supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Sarvam-30B?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (58.3 vs 19.5), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Sarvam-30B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and Sarvam-30B is developed by Sarvam AI.

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