What Sarvam does

Sarvam AI is a Bengaluru-headquartered, full-stack sovereign AI platform company founded in August 2023 by Dr. Vivek Raghavan and Dr. Pratyush Kumar \u2014 veterans of India's Aadhaar digital identity program and the AI4Bharat open-source Indian language initiative. The company trains and operates large language, speech, vision, and translation models on sovereign compute accessed through the IndiaAI Mission, with a flagship Sarvam 105B Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model and a 30B edge-optimized variant, both released as open-source under Apache 2.0. Its model layer is delivered through a public REST API (dashboard.sarvam.ai) and consumed either via self-serve developer credits or via enterprise platforms Samvaad (conversational AI agents), Arya (multi-agent orchestration with private cloud, on-premise, hybrid, and air-gapped deployment), Akshar (document digitization), and Chanakya (defence and high-security vertical).

The company serves two tightly linked customer cohorts. Enterprise customers \u2014 led by BFSI names including SBI Life Insurance, Tata Capital, Axis Bank, LIC, CRED, IDFC First Bank, and Mahindra Finance \u2014 consume forward-deployed conversational AI and agentic platforms with SLA-backed production support. Government and quasi-government customers \u2014 the IndiaAI Mission, UIDAI (Aadhaar), Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Skill India, and NABARD \u2014 consume sovereign deployment for citizen services, multilingual voice agents, and document digitization at population scale (17M+ farmers surveyed, 45M+ policyholders reached, 35M+ pages digitized). Revenue is generated through a mix of usage-based API fees, tiered subscriptions (\u20b910K Pro, \u20b950K Business), enterprise platform licensing, sovereign infrastructure services, and emerging hardware revenue (Sarvam Kaze smart glasses). Channel partners include HCLTech (also the $150M strategic lead in Series B), Bosch Global Software Technologies, YCP India, plus developer-ecosystem integrations with LiveKit, Pipecat, n8n, and MCP. Sarvam became India's second AI unicorn in June 2026 at a $1.5B post-money valuation with disclosed FY26 revenue of \u20b945.1 crore (~$5.4M USD).

Name

Sarvam

Legal name

Axonwise Private Limited

Website

https://sarvam.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Sarvam is a Bengaluru-based full-stack sovereign AI platform that builds Indian-language foundation models (Sarvam 30B and 105B) and delivers conversational AI, agentic workflows, and speech/vision APIs to BFSI, government, and defence customers across India.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Generative AI Platform

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Translation and Interpretation Services (54193), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Machine Translation & Multilingual NLP (HDAAADAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Enterprise PaaS (App Runtime & Managed Application Platforms) (HDAEAKAB)

Keywords

• Generative AI platform
• Indian language AI
• Sovereign AI infrastructure
• Conversational AI agents
• Enterprise AI deployment

Headquarters

HQ city

Bengaluru

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. API Usage Fees: Pay-per-use pricing for LLM chat completions, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, translation, transliteration, and document digitization APIs. Metered by token count, character count, audio duration, or page count depending on service.
2. Subscription Plans: Tiered subscription plans (Starter, Pro at ₹10,000, Business at ₹50,000) with bundled credits, higher rate limits, and support tiers. Credits roll over indefinitely and are universal across all APIs.
3. Enterprise AI Platform Licensing: Forward-deployed enterprise agreements with BFSI, insurance, government, and defence customers for Conversational AI (Samvaad), agentic platforms (Arya), and custom model deployment. Includes SLA-backed support.
4. Sovereign AI Infrastructure Services: Sovereign compute and inference infrastructure services for regulated sectors requiring data residency in India, deployed via private cloud, VPC, or air-gapped on-premise environments.
5. Hardware Products: Sale of AI hardware including Sarvam Kaze smart glasses, marketed as business devices. Revenue contribution minimal as of FY26.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Sarvam operates India's full-stack sovereign AI platform, building and serving proprietary large language models (Sarvam 105B and 30B), Indic-language speech APIs (Bulbul TTS, Saaras STT), translation (Mayura), and document digitization (Sarvam Vision). It monetizes through a public REST API platform with pay-per-use pricing plus subscription tiers, and provides enterprise conversational AI (Samvaad) and multi-agent orchestration (Arya) to BFSI, government, defence, and consumer-internet customers via direct sales, system integrators, and channel partnerships.

Product overview

Sarvam is a full-stack sovereign AI company offering a platform-plus-modules architecture spanning proprietary AI models, developer APIs, enterprise agent platforms, and consumer applications — all built, deployed, and operated entirely in India. The core platform consists of Samvaad (conversational AI agents for voice/text), Arya (multi-agent orchestration for enterprise workflows with air-gapped deployment), and Akshar/Studio (document digitization and content transformation). The model layer includes Sarvam 105B and 30B (open-source reasoning LLMs), Bulbul (TTS), Saaras (STT), Mayura and Sarvam Translate (translation), Sarvam Vision (document multimodal), and Sarvam Translate. Developer access is via a public REST API with Python/JavaScript SDKs. Consumer-facing products include the Indus chatbot app and Sarvam Edge (off-device AI). Specialized verticals include Chanakya for defense and government security applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Samvaad: Conversational AI platform for enterprise voice agents and customer engagement.
• Studio
• Akshar
• Arya
• Indus
• Kaze
• Chanakya
• Edge
• Bulbul
• Saaras
• Mayura

Products and services

• Samvaad Conversational AI platform for building and deploying voice and text AI agents that handle multi-turn dialogues across Indian languages. Powers customer-facing automation in banking, insurance, and government services.
• Arya Multi-agent orchestration platform for enterprise AI workflows. Enables deployment across private cloud, on-premise, hybrid, or air-gapped environments with role-based access, audit trails, SLA-backed support, and HITL workflows. Targets BFSI, defence, and government verticals.
• Akshar Document digitization product that transforms handwritten and printed documents (insurance forms, land records, PDFs) into structured, searchable, machine-readable data across 23 Indian languages.
• Studio Content transformation platform providing dubbing for video localization across Indian languages and voice cloning via Content Studio (with consent and personality rights compliance).
• Sarvam 105B Flagship 105-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts reasoning language model trained from scratch in India, supporting 128K token context with state-of-the-art performance on Indian language benchmarks. Open-sourced under Apache 2.0.
• Sarvam 30B 30-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model optimized for edge and efficient real-time applications, with 32K token context that runs on consumer hardware. Open-sourced under Apache 2.0.
• Bulbul (TTS) Text-to-speech model available in v3 (premium) and v2 tiers, generating natural, expressive voices across 11 Indian languages with multiple speaker voices (Shubh, Shreya, Manan, Ishita), adjustable tone, speed, and loudness.
• Saaras (STT) Automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for high-accuracy transcription across 12 Indian languages with speaker diarization, code-mixed output, and Roman transliteration modes.
• Mayura Advanced text processing model for translation, transliteration, and script conversion across 10 Indian languages plus English, supporting formal, modern-colloquial, and classic-colloquial translation modes.
• Sarvam Vision 3-billion-parameter multimodal model for document digitization and image understanding. Extracts text from handwritten and printed documents across 23 Indian languages, preserves layout, parses tables to HTML/Markdown, and outputs structured JSON.
• Sarvam Translate Translation API supporting all 22 scheduled Indian languages plus English. Optimized for structured, long-form text translation with maximum 2,000 characters per request.
• Indus Consumer-facing AI chatbot assistant powered by the 105B sovereign model, available on iOS, Android, and web. Supports all Indian languages with mid-chat language switching, positioned as India's homegrown alternative to ChatGPT and Gemini.
• Sarvam Edge On-device/edge AI platform for enterprise deployments requiring offline operation, data sovereignty, and low latency. Runs on basic phones and edge devices without internet connectivity.
• Chanakya Business vertical focused on applied AI for governments, enterprises, and critical/high-security sectors. Deploys AI systems to air-gapped environments for defence and national security applications with text, image analysis, and autonomous AI workflows.
• Sarvam Kaze AI-powered smart glasses designed and manufactured in India, marketed as a business device and positioned as an on-device AI product for enterprise deployments.
• Sarvam API Platform Public REST API platform for developers to integrate Indic AI capabilities (LLMs, STT, TTS, translation, document digitization) into applications. Offers pay-per-use pricing with universal credits that roll over indefinitely across all APIs.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2M+ daily conversations on conversational AI platform; 10M+ daily API calls; 35M+ pages digitized; 500K+ hours of audio processed monthly
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability10 records

Feature13 records

Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Preferred Networks (Japan)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 July 2026India-Japan AI cooperation roadmap partnership announced during 16th India-Japan Annual Summit. Full AI technology stack collaboration spanning LLM development, compute infrastructure, and talent exchange. Part of 500 highly skilled Indian AI professionals to Japan by 2030 target.
• IIT BombaycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 July 2026Part of India-Japan AI cooperation framework. IIT Bombay collaborating with BharatGen Technology Foundation and Japan's National Institute of Informatics on large language model development.
• BharatGen Technology FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 July 2026India's government-funded multimodal LLM initiative. Collaborating under India-Japan AI cooperation framework alongside IIT Bombay and Japan's National Institute of Informatics.
• National Institute of Informatics (Japan)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 July 2026Japanese research institution partnering with IIT Bombay and BharatGen under India-Japan AI cooperation for joint LLM development.
• IndiaAI Mission (Government of India)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026Government compute support through IndiaAI Mission providing access to 4,096 Nvidia H100 GPUs. Government may acquire 1-2% stake through compulsorily convertible debentures conversion. Part of $1.25B IndiaAI Mission outlay.
• YCP IndiaminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 7 May 2026Partnership to help enterprises transition AI from testing to full deployment. YCP provides enterprise consulting, sector expertise, and implementation support; Sarvam provides sovereign AI platform.
• PixxelcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 May 2026Jointly developing Pathfinder, India's first orbital AI data centre satellite with datacentre-class GPUs for onboard model training and inference. Scheduled launch Q4 2026. Satellite assembled at Pixxel's Gigapixxel facility.
• PixxelcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 May 2026Strategic partnership to build Pathfinder, India's first orbital data centre satellite. Pixxel designs, builds, launches, and operates the 200kg satellite; Sarvam provides AI backbone for onboard inference. Target launch Q4 2026.
• QualcommcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 March 2026Sovereign AI collaboration with Qualcomm, combining Sarvam's AI models with Qualcomm's mobile chipset capabilities for on-device AI inference. Part of Qualcomm India's broader India strategy.
• SwiggycoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 25 March 2026Swiggy launched multilingual voice ordering across food delivery, Instamart, and DineOut using Sarvam's Indus AI in 11 Indian languages. Razorpay handles payment processing for the voice transactions.
• RazorpaycoreTechnology or Integration · 23 March 2026Partnership for voice-first conversational commerce. Razorpay's payment infrastructure enables AI agents to complete transactions via UPI Reserve Pay within conversational interfaces. Swiggy onboarded as early adopter.
• NVIDIA (Nemotron Coalition)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 March 2026Founding member of NVIDIA's Nemotron Coalition alongside Mistral AI, Perplexity, Cursor, and others. Coalition co-develops open frontier models on NVIDIA DGX Cloud infrastructure. First project: base model with Mistral AI feeding Nemotron 4 family.
• Yotta Data ServicescoreTechnology or Integration · 16 March 2026IndiaAI Mission infrastructure partner providing GPU compute (Blackwell Ultra infrastructure) for Sarvam's model training. Yotta deploying over 20,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs for sovereign AI.
• SBI Life InsurancecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 February 2026Deployment of Sarvam's Samvaad conversational AI and Arya multi-agent orchestration across SBI Life's distribution network, covering 8 crore customers and 3.5 lakh distributors for customer engagement and sales support.
• Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 25 February 2026MoU to jointly develop and deploy enterprise AI solutions combining Bosch's applied AI platforms, security offerings, and enterprise deployment capabilities with Sarvam's Indian language models. Targets automotive, medical devices, and wearables sectors.
• HMD Global (Nokia)coreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 20 February 2026Partnership to embed Sarvam's Indus AI assistant in Nokia feature phones, enabling voice-based AI interactions for users without smartphones or internet access.
• L&T (Larsen & Toubro)coreTechnology or IntegrationIndiaAI Mission infrastructure partner deploying NVIDIA GPU infrastructure for sovereign AI compute across India.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights8 records

Broad incumbents

• OpenAI: Global frontier-model leader whose ChatGPT powers consumer AI globally; Sarvam's Indus is positioned as an indigenous alternative. Competes for Indian enterprise and developer mind-share even though localization advantages favor Sarvam.
• Google DeepMind (Gemini): Global frontier AI lab with Gemini models increasingly localized for India. Represents the principal global threat to Sarvam's 'India-made' positioning while offering comparable reasoning capability.
• Kore.ai: Enterprise conversational AI / agent platform serving BFSI, healthcare, and government. Competes with Sarvam Arya in agentic workflow orchestration across regulated sectors.
• Anthropic: Frontier AI lab behind Claude; competing enterprise agentic AI narrative (Sarvam names coding/agentic as focus areas for Series B use of funds). Indirect competitor at global enterprise layer.

Direct peers

• Gnani.ai: Indian speech-AI company offering STT/TTS in Indic languages for enterprise voice agents, similar to Sarvam's Saaras/Bulbul. Among the five startups chosen for the IndiaAI sovereign model launch alongside Sarvam.
• Yellow.ai: Enterprise conversational AI platform serving BFSI, insurance, and government customers. Yellow.ai's Nexus Vox (announced integration with Sarvam models) competes on voice-agent deployments in regulated enterprises across India and globally.
• Krutrim (Ola): India's first AI unicorn and Sarvam's most direct domestic competitor, building Indic-language foundation models and a consumer chatbot (Krutrim Assistant). Targets the same sovereign AI narrative and Indian enterprise market with backing from Ola's ecosystem.
• BharatGen Technology Foundation: Government-funded multimodal LLM initiative jointly launched at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 with Sarvam. Competes directly on sovereign foundation models in Indic languages with public sector backing.

Emerging players

• Observe.AI: Conversational AI / contact-center intelligence platform with India engineering presence. Comparable offering to Sarvam's Samvaad in BFSI and insurance voice-agent deployments.
• Mistral AI: Co-founding member of NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition with Sarvam; open-weight frontier LLM lab with strong enterprise European base. Comparable on open-source LLM strategy and sovereign-AI positioning outside the US-China axis.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights8 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SarvamAI
• GitHubgithub.com/sarvamai
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@sarvamai
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sarvam-ai

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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