Sarvam AI: Sarvam Vision

Overview

Sarvam AI's document intelligence model, a 3B parameter state-space vision language model for OCR, tables and layout in 22 Indian languages and English, served through the Document AI Digitise and Extract APIs and offered for self-hosting on Amazon SageMaker. Version 2.1 (September 2026) adds form key-value extraction and handwriting in Indian languages.

Provider

Sarvam AI

Modality

Text and image

Input

image, file

Output

text

Parameters

3BProvider's model page, checked October 9, 2026.

Weights

Closed

Distillable

NoLicence or terms, checked October 9, 2026.

Tags

vision, ocr, document-intelligence, indian-languages

Docs

Provider documentation

Data policy

Prompts go to

Sarvam AI, on its managed environment in Microsoft Azure's Central India region. Self-hosted on Amazon SageMaker in your own AWS account, audio and documents stay in your account.

Retention

Sarvam keeps Model API data until the workspace Owner sets a retention period, and No retention (0 days) is available for Model APIs. Sarvam's terms let it train its own models on inputs and outputs as its Privacy Policy and the law allow, with consent where required, and its Trust Center says one customer's data never trains models for another customer.

Zero data retention

Available

Region

India: Sarvam's managed production environment runs in Microsoft Azure's Central India region.

Policy

Sarvam AI data policy

Summarised from the provider's published terms. The provider's own policy is what applies.

Where you can run it

How Sarvam Vision can be deployed, bought and reached through Safeguard.

Deployment

Public cloudPrivate cloud

Procurement

Not published yet

Inference regions

🇮🇳IndiaCloud provider's availability page, checked October 9, 2026.

Closed weights stay with the provider, so this model runs in the provider's cloud, never on-prem or air-gapped.

Pricing

Notes

Document AI: INR 0.50 per page to digitise and INR 1 per page to extract, up to 10 pages per job. Prices are in Indian rupees only, so no US dollar price is shown.

Source

Sarvam AI pricing , last verified October 9, 2026

No markup on model usage: you pay the provider's list price.

API

OpenAI-compatible. Your API key and access to this model are set up for your workspace when you choose Use with Safeguard.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.safeguard.sh/gpt/v1",
    api_key="SAFEGUARD_API_KEY",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="sarvam/sarvam-vision",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Base URL https://api.safeguard.sh/gpt/v1, model sarvam/sarvam-vision.