LM Evaluation Harness vs Pydantic Evals

LM Evaluation Harness

6.6 #26 in AI LLM Evaluation Tools

About LM Evaluation Harness

Pydantic Evals

6.7 #23 in AI LLM Evaluation Tools

About Pydantic Evals
LM Evaluation HarnessPydantic Evals
Free planYes
Free trialNo
Paid fromFree
Platformsapi, Linux, self-hostedLinux
Deploymentself-hostedself-hosted
Deployment optionsself-hosted
Custom metricsYes
Safety evaluationsYesYes
Free planYes
Evaluation methodsDeterministic checks; custom evaluators; LLM judges; G-Eval; performance checks; report evaluators; span-based evaluation; agentic trajectory evaluation
Model supportOpenAI; Anthropic; Gemini; xAI; Bedrock; Cerebras; Cohere; Groq; Hugging Face; Mistral; OpenRouter; and other listed Pydantic AI providers
Prompt versioningYes
API accessYes

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