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TLDR

Curated awesome-list README that links to LLM evaluation leaderboards and open-source benchmarking frameworks, grouped into hosted platforms and self-hostable projects.

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    Inputs
      Curator picks
      Pull requests
    Outputs
      Categorized README
      Project links
      Short descriptions
    Use Cases
      Find an LLM leaderboard
      Pick an eval framework
      Compare benchmark options
    Tech Stack
      Markdown

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Find a leaderboard like Chatbot Arena or LiveBench when picking which LLM to ship

USE CASE 2

Pick a self-hostable eval framework like lm-evaluation-harness or HELM for an internal model

USE CASE 3

Locate a domain-specific benchmark like RAGAS for RAG or AgentBench for agent loops

USE CASE 4

Submit a pull request adding a new evaluation project to the curated list

Tech stack

Markdown

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

No code, just a curated list of links with no license stated.

In plain English

Awesome-AI-Benchmarking is a curated list of tools, leaderboards, and frameworks for evaluating large language models. It is one of the GitHub-style awesome lists, meaning a single README that links out to other projects with short descriptions. The author updates the list periodically and welcomes pull requests for new entries. The list is split into two main groups. The first group, SaaS and hosted platforms, points to LMSYS Chatbot Arena, the crowdsourced blind-comparison Elo arena; Artificial Analysis, an independent platform that publishes quality, speed, price, latency, and context window metrics; the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard for open models; LiveBench, which refreshes its questions to fight contamination; and the Vellum LLM Leaderboard, which targets business use cases. HELM and BigBench are also called out. The second group covers open-source projects you can run yourself. It lists EleutherAI's lm-evaluation-harness, Hugging Face's open leaderboard codebase and LightEval, Stanford's HELM suite, the LiveBench source, EvalPlus for code generation with extended tests like HumanEval Plus and MBPP Plus, DeepEval, the LangSmith evaluators, Google's Big-Bench with over 200 tasks, RAGAS for retrieval-augmented generation, PromptBench for adversarial prompt testing, SafetyBench, MT-Bench, AgentBench, and LLM-KG-Bench for knowledge graphs. The README closes with notes on how to contribute and a disclaimer. Contributors are asked to fork the repo, follow the existing entry format, and submit a pull request with a short explanation. The disclaimer reminds readers that the list is community-curated and not exhaustive, that benchmark scores can be misleading without an understanding of methodology and contamination risk, and that no single leaderboard tells the full story since different benchmarks favor different model strengths. The repository itself contains only the README and a star history chart link, with no code. There is no license listed in the README. The audience the author addresses is AI researchers, LLM engineers, product teams, and open-source enthusiasts who want a reading list of evaluation projects in one place.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Pick the right benchmark from Awesome-AI-Benchmarking for evaluating a RAG pipeline
Prompt 2
Compare LMSYS Chatbot Arena and Artificial Analysis based on what this list says
Prompt 3
Draft a new entry in the existing format for a benchmark I want to add via pull request
Prompt 4
List which entries on this awesome list are SaaS leaderboards versus self-hostable frameworks
Prompt 5
Find which projects on this list specifically address benchmark contamination
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