# Evaluate your model with Inspect-AI

Pick the right benchmarks with our benchmark finder:
Search by language, task type, dataset name, or keywords.

> [!WARNING]
> Not all tasks are compatible with inspect-ai's API as of yet, we are working on converting all of them !

Once you've chosen a benchmark, run it with `lighteval eval`. Below are examples for common setups.

### Examples

1. Evaluate a model via Hugging Face Inference Providers.

```bash
lighteval eval "hf-inference-providers/openai/gpt-oss-20b" "lighteval|gpqa:diamond|0"
```

2. Run multiple evals at the same time.

```bash
lighteval eval "hf-inference-providers/openai/gpt-oss-20b" "lighteval|gpqa:diamond|0,lighteval|aime25|0"
```

3. Compare providers for the same model.

```bash
lighteval eval \
    hf-inference-providers/openai/gpt-oss-20b:fireworks-ai \
    hf-inference-providers/openai/gpt-oss-20b:together \
    hf-inference-providers/openai/gpt-oss-20b:nebius \
    "lighteval|gpqa:diamond|0"
```

4. Evaluate a vLLM or SGLang model.

```bash
lighteval eval vllm/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM-135M-Instruct "lighteval|gpqa:diamond|0"
```

5. See the impact of few-shot on your model.

```bash
lighteval eval hf-inference-providers/openai/gpt-oss-20b "lighteval|gsm8k|0,lighteval|gsm8k|5"
```

6. Optimize custom server connections.

```bash
lighteval eval hf-inference-providers/openai/gpt-oss-20b "lighteval|gsm8k|0" \
    --max-connections 50 \
    --timeout 30 \
    --retry-on-error 1 \
    --max-retries 1 \
    --max-samples 10
```

7. Use multiple epochs for more reliable results.

```bash
lighteval eval hf-inference-providers/openai/gpt-oss-20b "lighteval|aime25|0" --epochs 16 --epochs-reducer "pass_at_4"
```

8. Push to the Hub to share results.

```bash
lighteval eval hf-inference-providers/openai/gpt-oss-20b "lighteval|hle|0" \
    --bundle-dir gpt-oss-bundle \
    --repo-id OpenEvals/evals \
    --max-samples 100
```

Resulting Space:

9. Change model behaviour

You can use any argument defined in inspect-ai's API.

```bash
lighteval eval hf-inference-providers/openai/gpt-oss-20b "lighteval|aime25|0" --temperature 0.1
```

10. Use model-args to use any inference provider specific argument.

```bash
lighteval eval google/gemini-2.5-pro "lighteval|aime25|0" --model-args location=us-east5
```

```bash
lighteval eval openai/gpt-4o "lighteval|gpqa:diamond|0" --model-args service_tier=flex,client_timeout=1200
```

LightEval prints a per-model results table:

```
Completed all tasks in 'lighteval-logs' successfully

|                 Model                 |gpqa|gpqa:diamond|
|---------------------------------------|---:|-----------:|
|vllm/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM-135M-Instruct|0.01|        0.01|

results saved to lighteval-logs
run "inspect view --log-dir lighteval-logs" to view the results
```

