Independent eval research. Open methodology, published datasets, and the tools to run your own studies.

Original, open-source studies

Model comparisons, agent setups, cost, and modalities, measured on real tasks. Read the methodology and results, or rerun a study on your own data.

4 September 2026
Loop vs Braintrust MCP + Codex for production agent investigations

Loop and Braintrust MCP + Codex each ran five workflows on identical 200-trace projects. Each tool was scored against a handwritten rubric measuring how well it surfaced insights about the traces and cited supporting evidence so traceability could be verified.

Insight checks passed
Braintrust MCP + Codex0
Loop0

22 condition-neutral checks

Production analysis time
Loop
0m 0s
Braintrust MCP + Codex
0m 0s

39% faster

31 August 2026
You.com vs built-in web search

Four models answered 1,329 questions about specific events from LiveNewsBench. Each model ran without web search and with limited and wide You.com Search API access. GPT-5.6 Terra and Claude Sonnet 5 also used their built-in search tools.

Claude Sonnet 5Question accuracy
With You.com0.00%
Built-in search0.00%
GPT-5.6 TerraQuestion accuracy
With You.com0.00%
Built-in search0.00%
20 August 2026
Behavior scoring vs output scoring for coding agents

Each enforcement variant was scored 2 ways. First by whether they adhered to that behavior, and second by the number of tests passed. We found that the agent could have leaky behavior that wasn't surfaced by output-only scoring.

Behavior adherence
Lockdown0%
Vanilla0%
Flag0%

30 tasksdeterministic detector

Output pass rate
Vanilla0%
Flag0%
Lockdown0%

test_passed on the same 30 tasks

12 August 2026
Compare Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4
7 August 2026
Testing whether language model harnesses transfer the wrong strategy
20 July 2026
Paper MCP vs Figma MCP for frontend agents
15 July 2026
How we chose the model behind Topics with Baseten
10 July 2026
Evaluating the GPT-5.6 family
9 July 2026
Evaluating speech-to-text models

Run evals like us

Each skill packages best practices from leading AI teams and researchers into a plain SKILL.md file your coding agent can read. Use them to get started running evals on your data.

Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
Gemini CLI
GitHub Copilot
opencode
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Point your agent at a skill

Ask it to do what the skill describes, like validating a scorer against human labels or finding hidden failure modes.

gh skill install braintrustdata/eval-library braintrust-validate-eval-scorer
skills/braintrust-validate-eval-scorer/SKILL.md
---
name: braintrust-validate-eval-scorer
description: Validate automated eval scorers and LLM judges against expert-reviewed reference data.
---
# Validate the scorer
  1. 1.Name the reference tier before computing anything.
  2. 2.Verify alignment: scorer outputs and reference labels must line up at the item and criterion level.
  3. 3.Report agreement (κ or α) with uncertainty, not raw accuracy.
  4. 4.Lead with the most decision-relevant false acceptance before any aggregate, and enumerate the dangerous cells case by case.
  5. 5.Break errors down by class and severity.
  6. 6.Test sensitivity and shortcuts: inject known regressions and improvements and confirm the scorer moves; probe whether length, confidence, or polish raise the score independent of quality; probe whether text addressed to the judge moves it; slice agreement by subgroup.

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