Comparison

LM Evaluation Harness vs Promptfoo

No leader: the top candidate Promptfoo has only 0.22 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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LM Evaluation Harness48
Promptfoo58
Score
vioscaleAI score
LM Evaluation Harness48 / 100low · 35%
Promptfoo58 / 100low · 22%
Pricing
Free tier
LM Evaluation Harness✓
Promptfoo✓
Model
LM Evaluation Harnessopen_source
Promptfooopen_source
Price level
LM Evaluation Harnessfree
Promptfoofree
Transparent
LM Evaluation Harness✓
Promptfoo✓
Integrations
Count
LM Evaluation Harness5
Promptfoo8
Security
Iso27001
LM Evaluation Harness–
Promptfoo✓
Scorecard
LM Evaluation Harness5.5
Promptfoo–
Soc2
LM Evaluation Harness–
Promptfoo✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
LM Evaluation Harness252
Promptfoo–
Github stars
LM Evaluation Harness14,221
Promptfoo–
Activity
Commits last 30d
LM Evaluation Harness57
Promptfoo–
Release
Cadence days
LM Evaluation Harness72
Promptfoo–
History
LM Evaluation Harness19 items
Promptfoo–
License
Spdx
LM Evaluation HarnessMIT
Promptfoo–
Language
Primary
LM Evaluation HarnessPython
Promptfoo–
Market
Availability
LM Evaluation Harness–
Content
Faq
LM Evaluation Harness6 items
Promptfoo7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for ai evals testing. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Architecture model
LM Evaluation HarnessOpen source CLI
PromptfooOpen source CLI
LLM as a judge prompt grading framework
LM Evaluation Harness-
Promptfoo✓
Specialized rag metrics faithfulness context relevance
LM Evaluation Harness-
Promptfoo-
Deterministic regex and json schema assertions
LM Evaluation Harness-
Promptfoo✓
Synthetic test dataset generation from documents
LM Evaluation Harness-
Promptfoo-
Ci cd github actions pipeline blocking gates
LM Evaluation Harness-
Promptfoo✓
Red teaming and adversarial vulnerability scanning
LM Evaluation Harness-
Promptfoo✓
Multi model side by side ab regression testing
LM Evaluation Harness✓
Promptfoo✓
Human in the loop hitl annotation UI
LM Evaluation Harness-
Promptfoo-
Dashboard analytics for metric drift over time
LM Evaluation Harness-
Promptfoo-
SOC2 type ii
LM Evaluation Harness-
Promptfoo✓
Mit or apache permissive oss license
LM Evaluation Harness-
Promptfoo✓
Pricing model
LM Evaluation HarnessFree open source
Promptfooopen-source-self-host

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

LM Evaluation Harness

A framework for conducting few-shot evaluation of language models against various tasks and benchmarks. Supports multiple model backends, custom evaluation metrics, and extensible task definitions for assessing model capabilities and performance.

Independently observed

Promptfoo

Automated testing and security evaluation framework for AI applications, with support for comparing multiple model providers and identifying potential vulnerabilities through red teaming and assertion-based validation.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

LM Evaluation Harness

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Promptfoo

HybridFree tier

Free open-source Community tier; Enterprise and On-Premise plans with custom pricing

  • CommunityFree
    • All LLM evaluation features
    • All model providers and integrations
    • Red teaming (10k probes/month)
    • Custom integration with your own app
    • Run locally or self-host on your own infrastructure
    • +2 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Community features
    • Custom red teaming limits
    • Team sharing & collaboration
    • Continuous monitoring
    • Centralized security/compliance dashboard
    • +6 more
  • On-PremiseContact sales
    • Complete data isolation
    • On-premise deployment
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
macOS
LM Evaluation Harness✓
Promptfoo✗
Windows
LM Evaluation Harness✓
Promptfoo✗
Linux
LM Evaluation Harness✓
Promptfoo✗
CLI
LM Evaluation Harness✓
Promptfoo✓
Deployment
Self-hosted
LM Evaluation Harness✓
Promptfoo✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • GitHub

LM Evaluation Harness

5 total - 4 not shared
  • Hugging Face
  • PyTorch
  • VLLM
  • OpenAI-compliant APIs
Independently observed

Promptfoo

15 total - 14 not shared
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Google (Gemini)
  • DeepSeek
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Webhooks
  • Agent frameworks
  • CI/CD platforms
  • Python providers
  • Azure
  • Bedrock
  • Ollama
  • Gemini
Independently observed
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LM Evaluation Harness or Promptfoo: which one depends on you

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Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.