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Sarvam AI | Sovereign Indian AI Ecosystem for LLMs, Agents, and AI Assistants
Sarvam Translate is a translation API built by Sarvam AI, a Bengaluru-based sovereign AI company founded with $41 million in funding from Lightspeed, Peak XV Partners, and Khosla Ventures (valued at ~$200M as of early 2026). It supports all 22 official Indian languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution — including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, and Odia — making it the most comprehensive Indian-language translation API available. Sarvam Translate is powered by Mayura, Sarvam's state-of-the-art text processing model optimised for Indian languages. Unlike Google Translate which treats Indian languages as an afterthought, Sarvam's models are trained from scratch on Indian-language datasets, delivering better accuracy for formal, structured text (legal documents, government communications, enterprise content). The API also supports transliteration and script conversion between Indian scripts, which is critical for apps serving multilingual Indian users. Pricing is developer-friendly: translation costs Rs 20 per 10,000 characters, with Rs 1,000 free credits included on all plans (enough for ~500K characters). Credits never expire and roll over automatically. Plans range from free to Rs 50,000 with bonus credits for volume usage. The Sarvam Startup Program offers 6-12 months of free API credits with priority engineering support for early-stage companies. Sarvam Translate is best suited for Indian developers building multilingual apps, government tech projects needing constitutional language coverage, and enterprises with Indian-language document processing needs. However, ecosystem tooling is still maturing — GGUF format support is missing, local experimentation is harder than with Google's APIs, and the developer community is small. For consumer-facing translation needs, Google Translate remains more accessible; Sarvam shines for structured, high-quality Indian-language translation at API level.
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