Sarvam AI

Sarvam AI is an Indian sovereign AI platform providing frontier-class models and tools optimized for local languages and deployment scenarios. It offers a consumer chat app alongside developer APIs, positioning itself as a cost-effective, high-performance alternative for the Indian market.

What Sarvam AI does:

• •Indus AI Chat App A consumer-facing desktop application for macOS and Windows that provides AI chat, coding assistance, and reasoning, optimized for Indian language queries and context.
• •Multilingual Model Optimization Trains and delivers AI models specifically fine-tuned for India's 22 official languages, offering superior performance on local tasks compared to global models.
• •Speech AI APIs Provides high-performance, low-latency APIs for Speech-to-Text (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) tasks, designed for enterprise-scale applications.
• •Edge & On-Premise Deployment Enables models to run on private VPCs, on-premise air-gapped setups, and edge devices like smartphones and IoT, offering data sovereignty and low latency.
• •Qualcomm Chipset Integration Partners with Qualcomm to optimize model deployment on their chipsets for efficient edge AI inference on mobile and other devices.
• •Lightweight Models for Feature Phones Develops and deploys specially optimized, smaller AI models that can run on low-resource devices like feature phones, expanding access.
• •Open-Source Model Weights Makes certain model weights available for download under permissive licenses, allowing developers to customize and fine-tune for specific use cases.
• •Model Context Server (MCP) Support Integrates with the Model Context Protocol, allowing its models to connect with external data sources and tools for enhanced, context-aware applications.
• •Browser Extension Offers a browser extension that provides quick access to Sarvam AI's capabilities directly within your web browser for research and content creation.
• •Mobile Application Provides a dedicated iOS mobile app, bringing its chat and AI assistant capabilities to users on the go.

Limitations:

• •Designed for India — limited value outside Indian language contexts — Sarvam's core strength is Indian language AI (Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, and 8+ others); if your business operates in English or non-Indian languages, there are better-suited alternatives.
• •Compute capacity is restricted and may hit waitlists — As of early 2026, Sarvam has warned that users may encounter access restrictions or waitlists as it expands compute; availability is not guaranteed for new sign-ups.
• •Vision (OCR) feature misses text in images — The document intelligence tool sometimes fails to extract full text from uploaded images, returning partial results that require manual correction.
• •No option to delete chat history without deleting your account — In the Indus app, users cannot clear conversation history independently; the only option is full account deletion, which is a meaningful privacy gap.
• •Language quality varies by dialect and domain — Accuracy drops noticeably for regional dialects and specialised vocabulary (legal, medical, technical); this directly affects voice feature reliability for diverse Indian language users.

Pricing:

• •Free Approximately $12 in free API credits to start, no expiration, usable across all APIs.
• •Starter (Pay-as-you-go) Text-to-speech $0.35/10k characters, speech-to-text $0.35/hour, translation $0.24/10k characters, vision $0.02/page. No monthly minimum.
• •Pro Approximately $118/month, includes bonus credits, higher rate limits (200 requests/min), and email support.
• •Business Approximately $588/month, includes priority support, custom solutions, and 1,000 requests/min.