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HELM vs RAGChecker

HELM

crfm.stanford.edu

RAGChecker

github.com

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FigureHELMRAGChecker
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
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WebYes—
APIYes—
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published11
Spec score · LLM Evaluation Tools8.3 (#7)7.1 (#24)
Spec score · AI LLM Evaluation Tools8.4 (#12)7.2 (#27)
InstallationThe project instructs users to install HELM from PyPI with `pip install crfm-helm`.The maker documents installation with pip install ragchecker and requires downloading the spaCy en_core_web_sm model in its quick start.
LicenseThe repository identifies HELM as open source and links to an Apache-2.0 license.The project is licensed under Apache-2.0.
PurposeHELM is an open-source Python framework for holistic, reproducible, and transparent evaluation of foundation models, including language and multimodal models.RAGChecker is an automatic evaluation framework for assessing and diagnosing retrieval-augmented generation systems.

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HELM

  • HELMFree

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  • RAGCheckerFree

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HELM

HELM is an open-source Python framework for evaluating foundation models, including large language and multimodal systems. It supplies standardized datasets and benchmarks such as MMLU-Pro, GPQA, IFEval, and WildBench, with a unified interface for models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Evaluations can examine accuracy, efficiency, bias, and toxicity, and can include custom metrics, LLM-as-a-judge checks, safety evaluations, and human review workflows. Users can configure private checkpoints or model servers, run inference locally, or send requests to an API. A web interface displays individual prompts and responses, while leaderboards compare models and benchmarks across areas such as medicine, finance, multilinguality, and world knowledge. HELM can reproduce published evaluation results and documents commands for running benchmarks, summarizing results, and starting a local server. It is free, Apache-2.0 licensed, and entered maintenance mode on June 1, 2026.

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RAGChecker

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