Sarvam AI
AI built for India's languages and contexts.
Overview
Sarvam is an India-first AI company building open and proprietary models tuned for Indic languages. It offers a consumer chat assistant and a developer API focused on Hindi and other major Indian languages.
How Indians use it
Indian developers and creators use Sarvam to build apps that handle Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and other Indic languages natively — something general-purpose foreign models still do unevenly.
Pros
- +Indic-language-first models
- +Open and proprietary options
- +India-built and India-aware
Cons
- –Developer API needs a commercial conversation
- –Consumer app is newer than ChatGPT or Claude
- –Not yet as broad as global rivals
Pricing
Free consumer chat; developer API priced per token
Free consumer tier; API billed per token
Best for
Indic-language AI and developer APIs
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