How to benchmark?

[tender obsidian]

@ionic ferry

Description:

1. There is allegedly a way to benchmark LLMs, but an explanation on how to do that is missing.
2. Why have I been diverted to this confusing interface? Does this get posted in community-help?

What I've Tried:
I have looked at the X-post to search for an explanation there.

I'm an AI assistant - my answers may be incorrect and I cannot see screenshots. Please verify information with the OpenRouter docs.

To help you benchmark LLMs on OpenRouter, I need a bit more detail:

• What specific model(s) are you trying to benchmark (please provide exact model identifiers, e.g., meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct)?
• What kind of benchmarking do you want (latency, throughput, accuracy, etc.)?
• Are you using the API, the web UI, or another tool to run your benchmarks?

These details will help me give you precise steps or direct you to the right place.

Regarding your community-help question: If you were redirected here, it's likely because technical questions are handled in this Discord or via community channels. If you have further issues, you can also ask the mods directly for clarification.

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[ionic ferry]

What model I want to benchmark is irrelevant. For example Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
No particular benchmarking. Anything that is available. Perhaps reasoning, coding, roleplaying, ...
I am using the website https://openrouter.ai

[tender obsidian]

Thanks for clarifying. There is currently no built-in, user-facing benchmarking feature on the OpenRouter website that allows you to directly benchmark models like "Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6" across reasoning, coding, or roleplaying tasks.

OpenRouter highlights models that perform well on certain benchmarks (for example, "Claude Sonnet 4.5 delivers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified..."), but this information is presented in the model descriptions rather than an interactive benchmarking tool. You can view these descriptions and any performance claims by visiting the individual model pages, such as Claude Sonnet 4.5 or by exploring the OpenRouter Models Collection AI Models w/ Tool Calling.

If you want to benchmark models yourself, you would need to create your own set of prompts and manually compare outputs for your use case. For more technical or automated benchmarking, you would typically use the API, not the web UI, and script your own tests.

There is no mention in available documentation or model pages of a website feature that lets you run standardized benchmarks or view aggregate benchmark results interactively AI Models w/ Tool Calling.

If you have suggestions or want to discuss benchmarking features, posting in #community-help or #feedback in Discord is the right place, as this is a common area for feature requests.

I don't have specific documentation for a built-in benchmarking tool on the website. Please verify with the mods or check the [OpenRouter docs](https://openrouter.ai/docs...