Instructions to use sarvamai/sarvam-m with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use sarvamai/sarvam-m with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="sarvamai/sarvam-m")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("sarvamai/sarvam-m")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("sarvamai/sarvam-m", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Inference
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use sarvamai/sarvam-m with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "sarvamai/sarvam-m"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "sarvamai/sarvam-m",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/sarvamai/sarvam-m

SGLang

How to use sarvamai/sarvam-m with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "sarvamai/sarvam-m" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "sarvamai/sarvam-m",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "sarvamai/sarvam-m" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "sarvamai/sarvam-m",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use sarvamai/sarvam-m with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/sarvamai/sarvam-m
```

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@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ print("content:", content)
 > For thinking mode, we recommend `temperature=0.4`; for no-think mode, `temperature=0.2`.
-# How to use with Sarvam APIs
 ```python
 from openai import OpenAI
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ messages = [
 response1 = client.chat.completions.create(
     model=model_name,
     messages=messages,
-    reasoning_effort="medium",  # Enable thinking mode
     max_completion_tokens=4096,
 )
 print("First response:", response1.choices[0].message.content)
@@ -151,9 +151,9 @@ Refer to API docs here: [sarvam API docs](https://docs.sarvam.ai/api-reference-d
 # VLLM Deployment
-For easy deployment, we can use `vllm>=0.8.5` and create an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint with `vllm serve sarvamai/sarvam-m`
-For more control, we can use vllm in Python. That way, we can explicitly enable or disable thinking mode.
 ```python
 from openai import OpenAI
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ model = models.data[0].id
 messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Why is 42 the best number?"}]
-# By default, the model is in thinking mode.
 # If you want to disable thinking, add:
 # extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False}}
 response = client.chat.completions.create(model=model, messages=messages)
@@ -196,13 +196,9 @@ messages.append(
 # Running the model on a CPU
-The repo contains bf16 and q8 gguf files built using https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/build.md#cpu-build
-You can use the model using cli as explained in docs https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/tree/master/tools/main
 Example Command:
 ```
-./build/bin/llama-cli -i -m /projects/data/romit_sarvam_ai/models/gguf/sarvam-m-q8_0.gguf -c 8192 -t 16
-```
-We got about 4 tokens per second on 16 cores with q8 model.

 > For thinking mode, we recommend `temperature=0.4`; for no-think mode, `temperature=0.2`.
+# With Sarvam APIs
 ```python
 from openai import OpenAI
 response1 = client.chat.completions.create(
     model=model_name,
     messages=messages,
+    reasoning_effort="medium",  # Enable thinking mode. `None` for disable.
     max_completion_tokens=4096,
 )
 print("First response:", response1.choices[0].message.content)
 # VLLM Deployment
+For easy deployment, we can use `vllm>=0.8.5` and create an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint with `vllm serve sarvamai/sarvam-m`.
+If you want to use vLLM with python, you can do the following.
 ```python
 from openai import OpenAI
 messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Why is 42 the best number?"}]
+# By default, thinking mode is enabled.
 # If you want to disable thinking, add:
 # extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False}}
 response = client.chat.completions.create(model=model, messages=messages)
 # Running the model on a CPU
+This repo contains quantized (q8) version of the model as well. You can use the model on your local machine (without gpu) as explained [here](docs https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/tree/master/tools/main).
 Example Command:
 ```
+./build/bin/llama-cli -i -m /your/folder/path/sarvam-m-q8_0.gguf -c 8192 -t 16
+```