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Shadow Evaluations: Test the Auto-Router on Your Own Production Traffic

calendar_today August 18, 2026 domain litellm

Shadow evaluations duplicate a sampled slice of one key’s live traffic through an auto-router and have an LLM judge blindly compare the answers. On our own traffic the router matched or beat the current model on 88.1% of judged responses, measured before a single user-facing response changed.

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