Sarvam AI

Sarvam AI is India's full-stack sovereign AI platform building large language models, speech, and translation systems for Indian languages. The Sarvam API serves chat completions (Sarvam-M / Sarvam-30B / Sarvam-105B), speech-to-text (Saaras / Saarika), text-to-speech (Bulbul), translation (Mayura / Sarvam-Translate), transliteration, and language identification across 10-22 Indic languages via a REST interface using an api-subscription-key header.

Sarvam AI publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Chat API, Language Identification API, Speech to Text API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include AI, LLM, Speech to Text, Text to Speech, and Translation.

The Sarvam AI catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Sarvam AI’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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47.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 36/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
6 APIs
AILLMSpeech to TextText to SpeechTranslationIndian Languages

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 47.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 5.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 36/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Sarvam AI Chat API

The Chat API from Sarvam AI — 1 operation(s) for chat.

Sarvam AI Language Identification API

The Language Identification API from Sarvam AI — 1 operation(s) for language identification.

Sarvam AI Speech to Text API

The Speech to Text API from Sarvam AI — 2 operation(s) for speech to text.

Sarvam AI Text to Speech API

The Text to Speech API from Sarvam AI — 1 operation(s) for text to speech.

Sarvam AI Translate API

The Translate API from Sarvam AI — 1 operation(s) for translate.

Sarvam AI Transliterate API

The Transliterate API from Sarvam AI — 1 operation(s) for transliterate.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Sarvam AI API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Sarvam Ai Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sarvam Ai Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Sarvam Ai Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Sarvam AI Chat Completions Streaming (HTTP + SSE)

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of Sarvam AI's **chat completion streaming** surface. Sarvam's chat completions endpoint streams partial results as **HTTP Server-Sent Events (SSE)** ov...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Sarvam AI API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Sarvam Ai Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Sarvam Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Sarvam Ai Agentic Access

7 operations · 7 acting

7 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: sarvam-ai
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sarvam-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Sarvam AI
kind: company
description: Sarvam AI is India's full-stack sovereign AI platform building large language models, speech, and translation
  systems for Indian languages. The Sarvam API serves chat completions (Sarvam-M / Sarvam-30B / Sarvam-105B), speech-to-text
  (Saaras / Saarika), text-to-speech (Bulbul), translation (Mayura / Sarvam-Translate), transliteration, and language identification
  across 10-22 Indic languages via a REST interface using an api-subscription-key header.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/sarvam-ai.png
tags:
- AI
- LLM
- Speech to Text
- Text to Speech
- Translation
- Indian Languages
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: sarvam-ai:sarvam-ai-chat-api
  name: Sarvam AI Chat API
  description: The Chat API from Sarvam AI — 1 operation(s) for chat.
  humanURL: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/chat/chat-completions
  baseURL: https://api.sarvam.ai
  tags:
  - Chat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sarvam-ai-chat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/api-guides-tutorials/chat-completion/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/chat/chat-completions
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/sarvam-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/sarvam-ai-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/speech-to-text
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/speech-to-text/transcribe
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/speech-to-text/translate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/text-to-speech
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text-to-speech/convert
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/translate
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/translate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/transliterate
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/transliterate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/text-lid
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/identify-language
- aid: sarvam-ai:sarvam-ai-language-identification-api
  name: Sarvam AI Language Identification API
  description: The Language Identification API from Sarvam AI — 1 operation(s) for language identification.
  humanURL: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/chat/chat-completions
  baseURL: https://api.sarvam.ai
  tags:
  - Language Identification
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sarvam-ai-language-identification-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/api-guides-tutorials/chat-completion/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/chat/chat-completions
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/sarvam-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/sarvam-ai-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/speech-to-text
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/speech-to-text/transcribe
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/speech-to-text/translate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/text-to-speech
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text-to-speech/convert
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/translate
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/translate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/transliterate
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/transliterate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/text-lid
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/identify-language
- aid: sarvam-ai:sarvam-ai-speech-to-text-api
  name: Sarvam AI Speech to Text API
  description: The Speech to Text API from Sarvam AI — 2 operation(s) for speech to text.
  humanURL: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/chat/chat-completions
  baseURL: https://api.sarvam.ai
  tags:
  - Speech to Text
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sarvam-ai-speech-to-text-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/api-guides-tutorials/chat-completion/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/chat/chat-completions
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/sarvam-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/sarvam-ai-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/speech-to-text
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/speech-to-text/transcribe
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/speech-to-text/translate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/text-to-speech
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text-to-speech/convert
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/translate
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/translate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/transliterate
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/transliterate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/text-lid
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/identify-language
- aid: sarvam-ai:sarvam-ai-text-to-speech-api
  name: Sarvam AI Text to Speech API
  description: The Text to Speech API from Sarvam AI — 1 operation(s) for text to speech.
  humanURL: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/chat/chat-completions
  baseURL: https://api.sarvam.ai
  tags:
  - Text to Speech
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sarvam-ai-text-to-speech-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/api-guides-tutorials/chat-completion/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/chat/chat-completions
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/sarvam-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/sarvam-ai-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/speech-to-text
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/speech-to-text/transcribe
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/speech-to-text/translate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/text-to-speech
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text-to-speech/convert
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/translate
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/translate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/transliterate
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/transliterate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/text-lid
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/identify-language
- aid: sarvam-ai:sarvam-ai-translate-api
  name: Sarvam AI Translate API
  description: The Translate API from Sarvam AI — 1 operation(s) for translate.
  humanURL: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/chat/chat-completions
  baseURL: https://api.sarvam.ai
  tags:
  - Translate
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sarvam-ai-translate-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/api-guides-tutorials/chat-completion/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/chat/chat-completions
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/sarvam-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/sarvam-ai-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/speech-to-text
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/speech-to-text/transcribe
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/speech-to-text/translate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/text-to-speech
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text-to-speech/convert
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/translate
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/translate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/transliterate
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/transliterate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/text-lid
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/identify-language
- aid: sarvam-ai:sarvam-ai-transliterate-api
  name: Sarvam AI Transliterate API
  description: The Transliterate API from Sarvam AI — 1 operation(s) for transliterate.
  humanURL: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/chat/chat-completions
  baseURL: https://api.sarvam.ai
  tags:
  - Transliterate
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sarvam-ai-transliterate-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/api-guides-tutorials/chat-completion/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/chat/chat-completions
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/sarvam-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/sarvam-ai-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/speech-to-text
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/speech-to-text/transcribe
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/speech-to-text/translate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/text-to-speech
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text-to-speech/convert
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/translate
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/translate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/transliterate
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/transliterate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/endpoints/text-lid
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/text/identify-language
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/sarvam-ai-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sarvam-ai-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sarvam-ai-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/sarvamai
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sarvam-ai
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sarvam.ai
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-docs/introduction
- type: Plans
  url: plans/sarvam-ai-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/sarvam-ai-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/sarvam-ai-finops.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.sarvam.ai/blogs
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com