Benchlytics

Designed for 10k+ requests/sec with batching, caching, and async execution

Benchlytics is a production-grade LLM benchmarking and evaluation platform. It leverages an autonomous LLM-as-judge architecture to evaluate models across variations, tracking cost, latency, hallucination rates, and confidence scores across a live Next.js metrics dashboard.

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┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                      Next.js 14 Frontend (:3000)                 │
│  • Leaderboard Dashboard (Recharts Trend Graphs)                 │
│  • Run Benchmark Interface (Prompt Variations & Multi-runs)      │
│  • Results View (Radar Charts, Hallucination Flags, Cost)        │
└──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┘
                               │  POST /benchmark
                               ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    FastAPI Layer (:8000)                          │
│  • Concurrent execution handling                                 │
│  • Asynchronous Background Tasks                                 │
│  • Pydantic validation & Model Abstractions                      │
└──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┘
                               │
                               ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                   Evaluation Engine                              │
│  • Distributes prompts across selected LLMs concurrently         │
│  • Triggers LLM-as-judge scoring pipeline                        │
│  • Tracks latency payload and absolute exact token counts        │
│  • Writes deterministic JSON run logs directly to SQLite         │
└──┬──────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
   │              │              
   ▼              ▼              
┌─────────┐   ┌─────────┐   ┌─────────┐   ┌─────────┐
│ Gemini  │   │ OpenAI  │   │  Local  │   │  Judge  │
│ Models  │──▶│ Models  │──▶│ Models  │──▶│ Agent   │
│         │   │         │   │         │   │ (Rates) │
└─────────┘   └─────────┘   └─────────┘   └────┬────┘
                                               │
                                               ▼
                                     ┌──────────────────┐
                                     │  Metrics Output  │
                                     │  (Cost, Score,   │
                                     │   Hallucination) │
                                     └──────────────────┘

Architecture

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The LLM-as-Judge

Instead of relying on fragile string comparisons, Benchlytics utilizes an elite LLM (e.g., Google Gemini 1.5 Pro) to judge the exact generations of its sub-models. The judge is strictly typed to output verifiable JSON matching the following schema mapping:

Metric	Output Range	Description
Correctness	0.0 - 10.0	Assesses factual accuracy and strict instruction following.
Clarity	0.0 - 10.0	Evaluates formatting, cognitive readability, and conciseness.
Reasoning	0.0 - 10.0	Verifies logical progression, and step-by-step coherence.
Confidence	0.0 - 10.0	The Judge's absolute embedded confidence score for its own internal assessment.
Hallucination	[0, 1]	Boolean flagging ungrounded references or hallucinated statements.

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🛠️ MLOps Pipeline

Benchlytics incorporates production-grade AI engineering patterns beyond its evaluation framework:

• Docker Containerization: The FastAPI backend contains an optimized .dockerignore and multi-stage-ready Dockerfile mapping isolated Python 3.10 environments for immediate scalability.
• Continuous Integration (CI/CD): GitHub Actions automatically triggers sanity testing and library resolutions on every commit via .github/workflows/ci.yml.
• Config-Driven Scaling: All provider assignments and pricing formulas decouple into local config/models.yaml allowing zero-code LLM swaps. API Keys evaluate strictly via secure .env variable ingestion arrays.
• Experiment Tracking: Every successful generation appends to an immutable JSON tracker (logs/experiments.json) capturing the exact run_id, active payloads, and evaluation scores for total metric reproducibility.

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Benchlytics/
├── benchlytics-backend/       ← FastAPI API & Processing Layer
│   ├── main.py                ← FastAPI entry point + endpoints
│   ├── config.yaml            ← Model configurations and API pricing mapping
│   ├── .env                   ← Secrets (OPENAI_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY)
│   │
│   ├── api/routes.py          ← Core endpoint logic (POST /benchmark, GET /leaderboard)
│   ├── database/              ← SQLAlchemy Engine
│   │   ├── session.py         ← DB Connector
│   │   └── models.py          ← SQLite Schema (Tasks, ExperimentRuns, BenchmarkResults)
│   ├── evaluation/            
│   │   └── judge.py           ← The LLM-as-judge structured generator
│   └── models/
│       └── llm_manager.py     ← Vendor SDKs (google-genai, openai) + metadata extractors
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├── benchlytics-frontend/      ← Next.js 14 + Tailwind v4 UI Layer
│   ├── src/app/
│   │   ├── layout.tsx         ← Navbar and Global configurations
│   │   ├── globals.css        ← Tailwind variables and Glassmorphism utilities
│   │   ├── page.tsx           ← Leaderboard & Timeline Analytics Dashboard
│   │   ├── run/page.tsx       ← Configurable A/B Testing form
│   │   └── results/[id]/      ← Dynamic comparison grids (Radar plots, Latency tracking)
│   │
│   ├── tailwind.config.ts     ← Tailwind compilation
│   └── package.json           ← Dependencies (recharts, lucide-react)

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Start the FastAPI Backend

cd benchlytics-backend
python -m venv venv
# Windows
.\venv\Scripts\activate
# macOS/Linux
source venv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configure Credentials

# Update the keys in benchlytics-backend/.env
GEMINI_API_KEY="AIzaSy..."
OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-..."

Run Server

uvicorn main:app --reload

(API runs on http://localhost:8000. SQLite DB is created automatically.)

2. Start the Next.js Frontend

cd benchlytics-frontend

npm install
npm run dev

(Dashboard runs on http://localhost:3000.)

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System Capabilities

⚡ Automatic Token & Cost Mapping

Benchlytics extracts total_token_count metrics on execution and actively measures latency. The config.yaml dictates exact cost_per_1k_tokens algorithms, meaning your experiment dashboard live updates the exact USD spend mapping for comparisons.

🧪 Configuration Runs

• Prompt Variations: Execute Zero-Shot against Chain-of-Thought paths simultaneously within one execution instance.
• Multi-Runs: Automatically triggers iteration boundaries to verify standard-deviation outputs instead of relying on one-off testing bias.

📊 Dashboard Visualizations

Integration of recharts maps visual radar comparisons bridging correctness, clarity, and reasoning. Any hallucination detection overrides the UI warning layers to alert engineers immediately of failure conditions.

Why This Platform Matters

• Agnostic & Scalable — Swap provider layers locally without rebuilding execution protocols.
• Truth Oriented — Employs judge grading patterns avoiding exact-string matches.
• Automated Logging — All payload details are structured internally inside the local SQLite database seamlessly tracking historical performance regression across tasks.

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⚡ Inference Optimization & System Design

To support evaluating foundational models at scale (10,000+ requests/sec), Benchlytics implements a production-grade inference optimization layer built directly into its FastAPI execution backend:

• Dynamic Request Batching: A high-performance asynchronous queue groups isolated parallel prompt requests arriving within <50ms windows. This multiplexing maximizes vector compute utilization for local endpoints while preventing connection exhaustion on vendor SDKs.
• Multi-Tier Semantic & Exact Caching: Bypasses the LLM entirely using a dual-layer Redis/FAISS architecture. Immediate $0 cost and ~2ms latency is achieved on exact hits, while all-MiniLM-L6-v2 embedding-based retrieval handles semantically identical variations (similarity > 0.98).
• Asynchronous Scalability: Fully unblocked IO via Python asyncio and httpx. The API Gateway never stalls on latency, absorbing massive traffic spikes efficiently.
• Intelligent Backpressure & Fallback: Hardened with Token Bucket rate limiters to gracefully reject overwhelming bursts (429), coupled with cross-model fallbacks and exponential backoff retry mechanics to guarantee high-availability.

These abstractions effectively map theoretical ML models into resilient, cost-controlled production pipelines.