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Figure 38: Sarvam 30B · diagram by Sebastian Raschka · click to zoom
Sparse MoESarvam AI 🇮🇳 · March 3, 2026

Sarvam (30B)

Reasoning-oriented Indian-language sparse MoE that keeps GQA at the smaller size.

Key detail

Large vocabulary and strong Indic language support paired with a reasoning-focused sparse MoE design.

Total params

30B

Active / token

2.4B

Context

128K

Fact sheet

Scale
30B total, 2.4B active (8% active)
Context window
131,072 tokens
Decoder type
Sparse MoE
Attention
GQA with QK-Norm
Layer mix
19 GQA
KV cache / token (bf16)
19 KiB · Very low
License
Apache License 2.0
Released

Efficiency

Parameters active per token

8.0%

2.4B of 30B weights run for each token.

KV cache per token (bf16)

19 KiB

Smaller than 82% of models in the atlas. How it’s calculated

AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2

Source

6.6

Scientific
3.9

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