Sarvam · Chat and reasoning · 106B parameters · 10.3B active · apache-2.0
sarvam-105b
Needs 128 GB at FP8 / INT8. The smallest real configuration today is 4× Tesla V100 32GB at Vast.ai, $0.27 per hour, about $196 a month at 730 hours.
Parameters106B10.3B active per token
Context128k tokensmaximum published
Checkpoint424 GBFP32, as published
Licenseapache-2.0check before commercial use
Released—documented date
Smallest configuration · FP8 / INT8
4× Tesla V100 32GB128 GB VRAM · 99% used
- Per hour
- $0.27
- Per month
- $196
- Cheapest at
Vast.ai
How much VRAM it needs
Weights plus runtime overhead, then the KV cache that grows with the context you serve.
| Precision | Weights | Weights + headroom | 4k context | 32k context | 128k context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP32published checkpoint | 424 GB | 509 GB | 510 GB | 511 GB | 514 GB |
| FP8 / INT8estimated | 106 GB | 128 GB | 128 GB | 129 GB | 133 GB |
| INT4 / MXFP4estimated | 64 GB | 77 GB | 77 GB | 78 GB | 82 GB |
| KV cacheone sequence, FP16 cache, included above | — | — | 1 GB | 2 GB | 5 GB |
Cross-checked on Hugging Face Oct 28, 2026: 106.0B parameters in the safetensors headers, 424.1 GB of weight files, attention layout from config.json (32 layers, latent rank 512). Method: weights as published at the native precision, verified on Hugging Face 2026-10-28; other precisions estimated at 1 (8-bit) and 0.6 (4-bit) bytes per parameter; × 1.2 runtime headroom; KV cache = 1152 bytes per token per layer × 32 full-attention layers (FP16 cache, one sequence).config.json ↗
What it costs to run, GPU by GPU
The fewest GPUs of one type whose total memory fits the model at short context, priced from the cheapest eligible on-demand offer for exactly that count (45-day window, newest reading per provider), with the next providers beside it. Monthly = 730 hours.
| GPU | Smallest config | VRAM used | $ / hour | $ / month | Cheapest at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tesla V100 32GBBest fit | 4× 32 GB128 GB total | 99% tight | $0.27 | $196 | |
| Tesla P100 | 8× 16 GB128 GB total | 99% tight | $0.38 | $274 | |
| Tesla V100 16GB | 8× 16 GB128 GB total | 99% tight | $0.75 | $547 | |
| RTX 5060 Ti | 8× 16 GB128 GB total | 99% tight | $0.75 | $549 | |
| RTX A4000 | 8× 16 GB128 GB total | 99% tight | $0.96 | $701 | |
| A800 80GB PCIe | 2× 80 GB160 GB total | 80% | $0.96 | $702 | |
| Quadro RTX 8000 | 4× 48 GB192 GB total | 66% | $1.01 | $741 | |
| RTX 3090 | 8× 24 GB192 GB total | 66% | $1.17 | $851 | |
| A100 80GB | 2× 80 GB160 GB total | 80% | $1.20 | $878 | |
| L40S | 4× 48 GB192 GB total | 66% | $1.52 | $1,110 | |
| A100 40GB | 4× 40 GB160 GB total | 80% | $1.60 | $1,170 | |
| RTX 5090 | 4× 32 GB128 GB total | 99% tight | $1.60 | $1,170 | |
| MI300X | 1× 192 GB192 GB total | 66% | $1.65 | $1,205 | |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 2× 96 GB192 GB total | 66% | $1.67 | $1,218 | |
| RTX A6000 | 4× 48 GB192 GB total | 66% | $1.68 | $1,226 | |
| RTX 5080 | 8× 16 GB128 GB total | 99% tight | $1.82 | $1,328 | |
| RTX 5070 Ti | 8× 16 GB128 GB total | 99% tight | $1.82 | $1,331 | |
| RTX PRO 5000 | 4× 48 GB192 GB total | 66% | $1.92 | $1,403 | |
| RTX PRO 4000 | 8× 24 GB192 GB total | 66% | $1.93 | $1,406 | |
| RTX 4070 Ti Super | 8× 16 GB128 GB total | 99% tight | $2.08 | $1,521 | |
| H200 | 1× 141 GB141 GB total | 90% tight | $2.09 | $1,526 | |
| Gaudi 2 | 2× 96 GB192 GB total | 66% | $2.11 | $1,538 | |
| RTX 4000 Ada | 8× 20 GB160 GB total | 80% | $2.14 | $1,559 | |
| MI325X | 1× 256 GB256 GB total | 50% | $2.25 | $1,643 | |
| The 24 cheapest of 49 GPU types that fit. Every GPU, any precision and context, in the finder | |||||
Tokens per second, and what a million costs
Chat and reasoning. Speed estimated from memory bandwidth and model size, never measured. The cost per 1M output tokens is an estimate at the prices read on Oct 4, 2026; it is not recomputed here.
| GPU | Cards | Precision | tok/s per user | per 1M output tokens · estimate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MI300X | 1 | FP8 | 108 | $0.327 |
| B200 | 1 | FP8 | 180 | $0.441 |
| H200 | 1 | FP8 | 126 | $0.443 |
| H100 SXM | 2 | FP8 | 99.3 | $0.552 |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 2 | FP8 | 60.2 | $0.694 |
| H100 PCIe | 2 | FP8 | 60.0 | $0.732 |
| L40S | 4 | FP8 | 41.9 | $0.845 |
| A100 80GB | 4 | BF16 | 60.6 | $1.05 |
cards, precision and speed estimated from memory bandwidth and model size; cost recomputed by the site from verified prices · cheapest per output at the prices of Oct 4, 2026: MI300XWhy estimates, and their limits →
