As of August 30, 2026, DeepSeek-V3 0324 is 11% cheaper per million tokens than Sarvam-105B. DeepSeek-V3 0324 is $0.28 / $1.14 per million input/output tokens versus Sarvam-105B at $0.80 / $0.80. Sources: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing and https://www.sarvam.ai/
Sources: DeepSeek API pricing (https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing); Sarvam AI pricing (https://www.sarvam.ai/)
DeepSeek-V3 0324
DeepSeek
Input
$0.28
Output
$1.14
Sarvam-105B
Sarvam AI
Input
$0.80
Output
$0.80
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DeepSeek-V3 0324Sarvam-105BVerdict
DeepSeek-V3 0324 offers significantly lower pricing, while Sarvam-105B leads on benchmark performance. Your choice depends on whether cost efficiency or raw capability matters more for your use case.
As of August 30, 2026, DeepSeek-V3 0324 is 11% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. DeepSeek-V3 0324 costs $0.28 per million input tokens and $1.14 per million output tokens ($1.42 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Sarvam-105B costs $0.80 / $0.80 per million tokens ($1.60 blended). Sources: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing and https://www.sarvam.ai/. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
DeepSeek-V3 0324 DeepSeek API pricing is $0.28 input and $1.14 output per million tokens via DeepSeek. Sarvam-105B Sarvam AI API pricing is $0.80 input and $0.80 output per million tokens via Sarvam AI. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Sarvam-105B has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 45%. DeepSeek-V3 0324 does not have that eval on this page yet.
DeepSeek-V3 0324 supports a 164K token context window, while Sarvam-105B supports 33K tokens. DeepSeek-V3 0324 offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Sarvam-105B leads on 4 of 4 shared benchmarks versus DeepSeek-V3 0324's 0 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both DeepSeek-V3 0324 and Sarvam-105B are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, DeepSeek-V3 0324 has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call DeepSeek-V3 0324 through DeepSeek and Sarvam-105B through Sarvam AI with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published DeepSeek API pricing and Sarvam AI API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing and https://www.sarvam.ai/. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
DeepSeek-V3 0324 supports up to 164K output tokens per request, while Sarvam-105B supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Neither DeepSeek-V3 0324 nor Sarvam-105B has published throughput data on this page yet. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open DeepSeek-V3 0324 or Sarvam-105B from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. DeepSeek-V3 0324 costs $0.28/M input and $1.14/M output. Sarvam-105B costs $0.80/M input and $0.80/M output.
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