curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/evals?after=example-after&limit=20&order=asc&order_by=created_at' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

# GET /evals (OpenAI API)
Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization; OpenAI API key; required.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> List evals

## Critical Gotchas
* The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.
* Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/evals?after=example-after&limit=20&order=asc&order_by=created_at' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| after | query | string | No | Identifier for the last eval from the previous pagination request. |
| limit | query | integer | No | Number of evals to retrieve. |
| order | query | string | No | Sort order for evals by timestamp. Use `asc` for ascending order or `desc` fo... |
| order_by | query | string | No | Evals can be ordered by creation time or last updated time. Use `created_at`... |

## Response example
{"object":"list","data":[{}]}

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GET

GET /evals — OpenAI API

OpenAI API key (required); https://api.openai.com/v1

OpenAI API

List evals

Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <OPENAI_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.

Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/evals?after=example-after&limit=20&order=asc&order_by=created_at' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
after	query	string	No	Identifier for the last eval from the previous pagination request.
limit	query	integer	No	Number of evals to retrieve.
order	query	string	No	Sort order for evals by timestamp. Use `asc` for ascending order or `desc` for descending order.
order_by	query	string	No	Evals can be ordered by creation time or last updated time. Use `created_at` for creation time or `updated_at` for last updated time.

Response 200 OK

{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "object": "eval",
      "id": "string",
      "name": "Chatbot effectiveness Evaluation",
      "data_source_config": {
        "type": "custom",
        "schema": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "item": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "label": {
                  "type": "string"
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "label"
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "item"
          ]
        }
      },
      "testing_criteria": [
        {
          "type": "label_model",
          "name": "string",
          "model": "string",
          "input": [
            "[recursive or deeply nested schema]"
          ],
          "labels": [
            "[recursive or deeply nested schema]"
          ],
          "passing_labels": [
            "[recursive or deeply nested schema]"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "created_at": 0,
      "metadata": {}
    }
  ],
  "first_id": "string",
  "last_id": "string",
  "has_more": true
}

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