Scoring & Ranking Prompts

One of the biggest challenges in prompt engineering is understanding if Prompt A performs better than Prompt B. PromptLayer helps you solve this.

Testing in development can only get you so far. We believe the best way to understand your prompts is by analyzing them in production.

Below are some ways you can use PromptLayer to answer the following key questions:

• How much does PromptA vs PromptB cost?
• How often is PromptA used?
• Is PromptA working better than PromptB?
• Which prompts are receiving the most negative user feedback?
• How do I synthetically evaluate my prompts using LLMs?

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A/B Testing

PromptLayer is best used as an orchestration & data layer of your prompts.

That means A/B testing is easy. Use the Prompt Registry to version templates build different tests, and store segmentation information in request metadata.

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Scoring

Every PromptLayer request can have multiple “Scores”. A score is an integer from 0-100.

In PromptLayer, ranking is based on Score values. Scores can be updated via the UI or programmatically, allowing for the creation of named or unnamed scores. For further details, refer to the provided documentation on prompt history, metadata, and request IDs. The three most common ways to Score to rank your prompts are:

1. User feedback: Present a 👍 and 👎 to your users after the completion. A user press of one of those buttons fills in a score of [100, 0] respectively.

2. RLHF: Use our visual dashboard to fill in scores by hand. You can then use this data to decide between prompt templates or to fine-tune.

3. Synthetic Evaluation: Use LLMs to score LLMs. After getting a completion, run an evaluation prompt on it and translate that to a score [0, 100].

   For example, your prompt could be:

   The following is an AI chat message given to a user:
   
   {completion}
   
   --
   
   We are worried that the chatbot is being rude. 
   How rude is the chat on a scale of 0 to 100?
   

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Analytics

After populating Scores as described above, navigate to the Prompt Template page to see how each template stacks up.

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Pricing

We live in the real world, so money matters. Building a prod LLM system means managing price. Some LLMs are cheaper than other LLMs. Some prompts are cheaper than other prompts.

Each request history page will tell you its individual cost:

You can also see the lifetime cost of a template in the Prompt Registry template page.