What running an LLM-as-judge eval suite costs per run.
LLM-as-judge evals pay to generate and to grade, so tokens stack up fast in CI. A cheap judge and a tight golden set keep it affordable. Size the underlying calls on the LLM token cost calculator.
Free LLM evaluation cost calculator — test cases, models compared and judge tokens to the cost of one eval run.
Cost is test cases times models times tokens per case, including the judge model reading each answer. An LLM-as-judge roughly doubles tokens because every generated answer is also scored. Running the suite on every commit multiplies that across the month.
Use a smaller, cheaper model as the judge, keep a focused golden set rather than thousands of cases, and run the full suite nightly with a quick smoke set on each commit. You do not need to eval every model on every push.