AI Glossary

Evaluation

Also called eval, evals

A test that measures how well a model or an AI system does a particular job, often run again after each change to catch anything that got worse. A public benchmark is one kind; many evals are built for one product or one task.

See also

  • Benchmark

    A defined set of tasks and scoring rules used to measure and compare AI systems.

  • Model card

    A document published with a model that describes what it is for, how it was evaluated, and its known limits.

Source: Claude Platform documentation, Define success criteria and build evaluations (opens in a new tab)

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Orbyt Labs, Evaluation (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/evaluation

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Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset

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