--- title: "Model Evaluations: Prove Your Routing Policy Actually Works" url: https://daily.dev/posts/model-evaluations-prove-your-routing-policy-actually-works-nquasumiq source_url: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/model-evaluation-public-preview type: article source: "DigitalOcean" published: 2026-06-04T19:55:13.614Z updated: 2026-06-04T19:55:39.277Z tags: ["data-science", "llm", "digitalocean"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Model Evaluations: Prove Your Routing Policy Actually Works **[DigitalOcean](https://daily.dev/sources/do)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DigitalOcean's Model Evaluations feature (now in Public Preview) lets teams benchmark AI inference strategies before changing production traffic. The guide walks through comparing three candidates on a legal assistant workload: a single frontier model (Claude Sonnet), an Inference Router with a cost/latency-optimized policy using multiple models, and a fine-tuned BYOM model from Hugging Face. It covers dataset preparation, evaluation configuration (system prompt, temperature, judge model), metric selection (correctness, completeness, ground truth faithfulness, safety), and how to interpret results across quality, latency, and cost dimensions. The approach enables reproducible, data-driven routing decisions without A/B testing in production. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [DigitalOcean Evaluations: Production Model and Router Testing for the Inference Stack](https://daily.dev/posts/digitalocean-evaluations-production-model-and-router-testing-for-the-inference-stack-qayiyetiu) · DigitalOcean · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Multi-Model Routing Is an Infrastructure Decision, Not a Feature: The Tradeoffs Nobody Publishes](https://daily.dev/posts/multi-model-routing-is-an-infrastructure-decision-not-a-feature-the-tradeoffs-nobody-publishes-zbm50wrn5) · DigitalOcean Community · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [MoE Routing for Faster, Cheaper AI Inference](https://daily.dev/posts/moe-routing-for-faster-cheaper-ai-inference-9qjnbnbah) · DigitalOcean Community · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#data-science](https://daily.dev/tags/data-science), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#digitalocean](https://daily.dev/tags/digitalocean) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/model-evaluations-prove-your-routing-policy-actually-works-nquasumiq)