Comparison

LM Evaluation Harness vs Ragas

No leader: the top candidate Ragas has only 0.27 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.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
LM Evaluation Harness54
Ragas58
Score
Vioscale score
LM Evaluation Harness54 / 100low · 40%
Ragas58 / 100low · 27%
Pricing
Free tier
LM Evaluation Harness
Ragas
Model
LM Evaluation Harnesscommercial
Price level
LM Evaluation Harnessfree
Ragasfree
Transparent
LM Evaluation Harness
Ragas
Integrations
Count
LM Evaluation Harness5
Ragas3
Adoption
Dependent repos
LM Evaluation Harness252
Ragas1
Github stars
LM Evaluation Harness13,802
Ragas15,484
Activity
Commits last 30d
LM Evaluation Harness50
Ragas
Release
Cadence days
LM Evaluation Harness66
Ragas7
History
LM Evaluation Harness18 items
License
Spdx
LM Evaluation HarnessMIT
Language
Primary
LM Evaluation HarnessPython
RagasPython

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

What each one is

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

LM Evaluation Harness

A Python-based evaluation framework that enables testing of language models against 60+ standard academic benchmarks with support for various model formats, APIs, and custom evaluation metrics.

Independently observed

Ragas

A Python-based framework that evaluates RAG applications through automatic metrics covering faithfulness, relevance, and recall. Includes tools to synthetically generate test datasets customized for specific use cases, enabling developers to assess LLM application performance at both component and end-to-end levels.

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

Free and open source

as of verify ↗

Ragas

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
CLI
LM Evaluation Harness
Ragas
Deployment
Self-hosted
LM Evaluation Harness
Ragas

Integrations

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

LM Evaluation Harness

5 total
  • Hugging Face
  • PyTorch
  • VLLM
  • GitHub
  • OpenAI-compliant APIs
Independently observed

Ragas

3 total
  • LlamaIndex
  • LangSmith
  • OpenAI
Independently observed

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