Sarvam AI
Don’t want to wire up the Sarvam AI API? Drop the file here.
The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.
Sarvam AI — full-stack Indian foundation models including Saaras / Saaransh speech APIs.
Best for developers building Indian-language voice and chat agents on top of a unified API. Pricing: tiered · per-minute pricing with free tier.
What it is
Sarvam AI is an Indian foundation-model company that ships Indic LLMs alongside speech recognition (Saaras) and audio understanding (Saaransh). The speech API targets 11 Indian languages plus Indian English, with developer-friendly pay-as-you-go pricing. Best pick when the broader app already plans to use Sarvam's LLMs for downstream summarisation or chat. Best fit when the buyer is developers building indian-language voice and chat agents on top of a unified api. The honest caveat: younger vendor than the cloud incumbents; sla and uptime track record is still building. Developer-grade API with self-serve signup; validate accuracy on representative audio for the target dialect before committing volume.
Watch out for: Younger vendor than the cloud incumbents; SLA and uptime track record is still building.
Install / use
sarvam.ai — register, get API key, call REST endpoints
What people actually do with Sarvam AI-style transcription
The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 11 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Sarvam AI vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Sarvam AI | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Transcription APIs | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | 11 | 99 |
| Platforms | Web, Linux | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Sarvam AI
Frequently asked about Sarvam AI
Is Sarvam AI free?
Partly. Sarvam AI has a free tier with paid plans above it — published pricing: tiered · per-minute pricing with free tier. Free-tier limits change more often than this page does; verify on the vendor's pricing page.
Does Sarvam AI work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Sarvam AI runs on Web and Linux. It is not listed for other platforms; check the vendor for anything beyond Web and Linux.
How do I get started with Sarvam AI?
There is nothing to install — Sarvam AI is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does Sarvam AI support?
Sarvam AI lists 11 languages.
What are the limitations of Sarvam AI?
Younger vendor than the cloud incumbents; SLA and uptime track record is still building.
Who is Sarvam AI best for?
Developers building Indian-language voice and chat agents on top of a unified API.
Is Sarvam AI open source?
No. Sarvam AI is a proprietary API. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Who maintains Sarvam AI?
Sarvam AI is open source on GitHub.
What kind of tool is Sarvam AI?
In this directory Sarvam AI is filed under regional india, api as a API.
What are the alternatives to Sarvam AI?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/sarvam-ai-alternatives comparing Sarvam AI with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Sarvam AI-style transcription without running it myself?
Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.
How is Whipscribe different from Sarvam AI?
Sarvam AI is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Sarvam AI?
$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.
Where is the Sarvam AI category heading?
Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.
Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.
Transcribe your recordings
Using Sarvam AI today? Send your next recording here and compare the transcript. Transcribe any language, any recording · Transcription services from $0.29 an hour · Transcribe from any meeting or recording platform · How to transcribe, step by step
Explore
All transcription tools · By language · By platform · By file format · How-to guides · Transcription services · Transcription API · Pricing
Long recording to get through?
One file up to 10 hours, as an upload or a link: see transcribing a long MP3 or M4A, transcribing a podcast episode and an SRT subtitle file from any recording.
Rather have it done for you?
Free tools cost setup time. When you want a finished transcript instead: see the best transcription services side by side, affordable transcription priced per hour and how our transcription services work.