llmgrader 1.1.0

Open-source LLM evaluation framework — 50+ research-backed metrics for RAG, agents, safety, and more

llmgrader

Open-source LLM evaluation framework — 50+ research-backed metrics for RAG pipelines, AI agents, safety, and conversational systems. Pytest-native. Provider-agnostic.

pip install llmgrader

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Quick Start

from llmgrader import LLMTestCase, assert_test
from llmgrader.metrics import AnswerRelevancyMetric, FaithfulnessMetric

tc = LLMTestCase(
    input="What is the capital of France?",
    actual_output="The capital of France is Paris.",
    retrieval_context=["France is a country in Western Europe. Its capital is Paris."],
)

assert_test(tc, metrics=[
    AnswerRelevancyMetric(threshold=0.7),
    FaithfulnessMetric(threshold=0.8),
])

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Features

Category	What it does
RAG Evaluation	Answer relevancy, faithfulness, contextual precision/recall/relevancy
Custom Metrics	GEval (LLM-as-judge + CoT), DAG (deterministic decision-tree)
Safety	Hallucination, bias, toxicity, PII leakage, misuse detection
Agent Evaluation	Task completion, tool correctness, step efficiency, argument correctness
Conversational	Relevancy, completeness, role adherence, knowledge retention
Other	JSON correctness (with schema), summarization quality
Pytest Native	assert_test(), fixtures, parametrize helpers
Tracing	@observe decorator, span/trace trees, component-level evaluation
Bulk Evaluation	evaluate() with concurrent execution and aggregated reports
Dataset Tools	EvaluationDataset, versioned JSON storage, CSV import
Synthesizer	Auto-generate Goldens from documents (4-step pipeline)
Providers	OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, custom LLM base class
Integrations	LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI
CLI	llmgrader test, llmgrader set-openai, llmgrader list-metrics

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Installation

# Core
pip install llmgrader

# With LangChain integration
pip install "llmgrader[langchain]"

# With LlamaIndex
pip install "llmgrader[llamaindex]"

# Everything
pip install "llmgrader[all]"

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Metrics Reference

RAG Metrics

from llmgrader.metrics import (
    AnswerRelevancyMetric,       # Is the answer relevant to the question?
    FaithfulnessMetric,          # Are claims grounded in retrieved context?
    ContextualRelevancyMetric,   # Are retrieved chunks relevant to the query?
    ContextualPrecisionMetric,   # Do relevant chunks rank higher?
    ContextualRecallMetric,      # Does context cover expected answer claims?
)

tc = LLMTestCase(
    input="What causes rain?",
    actual_output="Rain is caused by water vapor condensing in clouds.",
    expected_output="Rain is caused by condensation of water vapor.",
    retrieval_context=[
        "The water cycle involves evaporation and condensation.",
        "Rain forms when water vapor cools and condenses around particles.",
    ],
)

result = FaithfulnessMetric(threshold=0.8).measure(tc)
print(result.score, result.reason)

Custom: GEval (LLM-as-Judge)

from llmgrader import GEvalMetric, LLMTestCaseParams

metric = GEvalMetric(
    name="Correctness",
    criteria="The output should be factually correct and directly answer the question.",
    evaluation_params=[
        LLMTestCaseParams.INPUT,
        LLMTestCaseParams.ACTUAL_OUTPUT,
        LLMTestCaseParams.EXPECTED_OUTPUT,
    ],
    threshold=0.7,
)

result = metric.measure(tc)

Custom: DAG (Deterministic)

from llmgrader import DAGMetric
from llmgrader.metrics.custom.dag import DAGNode

dag = DAGNode(
    condition=lambda tc: len(tc.actual_output) > 0,
    score_if_false=0.0,
    next_if_true=DAGNode(
        condition=lambda tc: "error" not in tc.actual_output.lower(),
        score_if_true=1.0,
        score_if_false=0.2,
    )
)
metric = DAGMetric(name="ResponseQuality", root=dag, threshold=0.5)

Safety Metrics

from llmgrader.metrics import (
    HallucinationMetric,   # Detects factual hallucinations vs context
    BiasMetric,            # Gender, racial, political, religious bias
    ToxicityMetric,        # Hate speech, harassment, harmful content
    PIILeakageMetric,      # SSN, email, phone, credit card detection
    MisuseMetric,          # Weapons, illegal activity enablement
)

result = BiasMetric(threshold=0.7).measure(tc)

Agentic Metrics

from llmgrader import ToolCall
from llmgrader.metrics import (
    TaskCompletionMetric,      # Did the agent accomplish the goal?
    ToolCorrectnessMetric,     # Were the right tools called?
    StepEfficiencyMetric,      # Were unnecessary steps avoided?
    ArgumentCorrectnessMetric, # Were tool arguments correct?
)

tc = LLMTestCase(
    input="Search for the latest news on AI and summarize it.",
    actual_output="Here is a summary of recent AI news...",
    tools_called=[
        ToolCall(name="web_search", input_parameters={"query": "latest AI news"}),
        ToolCall(name="summarize", input_parameters={"max_length": 200}),
    ],
    expected_tools=["web_search", "summarize"],
)

result = ToolCorrectnessMetric(threshold=0.8).measure(tc)

Conversational Metrics

from llmgrader import ConversationalTestCase, Message
from llmgrader.metrics import (
    ConversationalRelevancyMetric,
    ConversationCompletenessMetric,
    RoleAdherenceMetric,
    KnowledgeRetentionMetric,
)

tc = ConversationalTestCase(
    messages=[
        Message(role="user", content="My name is Alice and I like Python."),
        Message(role="assistant", content="Nice to meet you, Alice! Python is great."),
        Message(role="user", content="What's my name again?"),
        Message(role="assistant", content="Your name is Alice."),
    ],
    chatbot_role="A helpful assistant that remembers user preferences.",
)

result = KnowledgeRetentionMetric(threshold=0.7).measure(tc)

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Bulk Evaluation

from llmgrader import evaluate, LLMTestCase
from llmgrader.metrics import AnswerRelevancyMetric, JSONCorrectnessMetric

test_cases = [
    LLMTestCase(input="What is 2+2?", actual_output="4"),
    LLMTestCase(input="Capital of Japan?", actual_output="Tokyo"),
    LLMTestCase(input="Return JSON", actual_output='{"status": "ok"}'),
]

result = evaluate(
    test_cases=test_cases,
    metrics=[AnswerRelevancyMetric(), JSONCorrectnessMetric()],
    max_concurrent=4,
    verbose=True,
)

print(f"Pass rate: {result.pass_rate:.1%}")
print(f"Overall score: {result.overall_score:.3f}")
result.print_summary()

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Pytest Integration

# test_my_llm.py
import pytest
from llmgrader import LLMTestCase, assert_test
from llmgrader.metrics import AnswerRelevancyMetric, FaithfulnessMetric

def test_rag_answer():
    tc = LLMTestCase(
        input="What causes lightning?",
        actual_output=my_rag_pipeline("What causes lightning?"),
        retrieval_context=get_context("lightning"),
    )
    assert_test(tc, metrics=[
        AnswerRelevancyMetric(threshold=0.7),
        FaithfulnessMetric(threshold=0.8),
    ])


# Run with: llmgrader test test_my_llm.py
# Or:       pytest test_my_llm.py

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Tracing & Component-Level Evaluation

from llmgrader import observe, Tracer, set_tracer, clear_tracer

tracer = Tracer()
set_tracer(tracer)
trace = tracer.start_trace()

@observe(span_type="retriever")
def retrieve(query: str) -> list:
    return vector_db.search(query)

@observe(span_type="llm")
def generate(context: list, query: str) -> str:
    return llm.generate(f"Context: {context}\nQuestion: {query}")

def rag_pipeline(query: str) -> str:
    context = retrieve(query)
    return generate(context, query)

answer = rag_pipeline("What is quantum computing?")
tracer.end_trace()
clear_tracer()

tracer.print_last_trace()  # Shows span tree with latencies

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Dataset Management

from llmgrader import EvaluationDataset, Golden

# Build a dataset
ds = EvaluationDataset()
ds.add_goldens([
    Golden(input="What is AI?", expected_output="Artificial intelligence."),
    Golden(input="Capital of Germany?", expected_output="Berlin"),
])
ds.save("my_dataset.json")

# Load and use
ds = EvaluationDataset.load("my_dataset.json")
test_cases = ds.to_test_cases(generate_fn=my_llm.generate)

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Synthetic Dataset Generation

from llmgrader import Synthesizer

synth = Synthesizer()

docs = [
    "The Python programming language was created by Guido van Rossum...",
    "Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence...",
]

goldens = synth.generate_goldens_from_docs(
    documents=docs,
    max_goldens_per_doc=5,
    filter_questions=True,
    evolve_questions=True,
    generate_expected_outputs=True,
)

print(f"Generated {len(goldens)} golden test cases")
for g in goldens[:2]:
    print(f"Q: {g.input}")
    print(f"A: {g.expected_output}\n")

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LLM Providers

from llmgrader.providers import OpenAIProvider, AnthropicProvider, OllamaProvider

# OpenAI
provider = OpenAIProvider(model="gpt-4o", api_key="sk-...")

# Anthropic Claude
provider = AnthropicProvider(model="claude-sonnet-4-6")

# Ollama (local)
provider = OllamaProvider(model="llama3")

# Custom provider
from llmgrader.providers import LLMProvider

class MyProvider(LLMProvider):
    def generate(self, prompt: str, **kwargs) -> str:
        return my_llm_api.call(prompt)

# Use in any metric
metric = AnswerRelevancyMetric(model=MyProvider())

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LangChain Integration

from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
from llmgrader.integrations.langchain import LangChainCallbackHandler, evaluate_chain
from llmgrader.metrics import AnswerRelevancyMetric

llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o")
chain = llm  # or any LangChain runnable

result = evaluate_chain(
    chain=chain,
    inputs=["What is the capital of France?", "Who invented Python?"],
    metrics=[AnswerRelevancyMetric(threshold=0.7)],
)

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CLI

# Run evaluation tests
llmgrader test tests/test_llm.py
llmgrader test tests/ -n 4          # 4 parallel workers

# Configure providers
llmgrader set-openai --key sk-... --model gpt-4o
llmgrader set-anthropic --key sk-... --model claude-sonnet-4-6
llmgrader set-ollama --model llama3

# List all metrics
llmgrader list-metrics

# Version
llmgrader version

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License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.

Author: Mahesh Makvana