# Hugging Face — Community Evals: Because we're done trusting black-box leaderboards over the community

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2026-02-04T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/community-evals
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1551-community-evals-because-we-re-done-trusting-black-box-leaderboards-over-the

Hugging Face announces Community Evals, a new feature on the Hugging Face Hub that allows benchmark datasets to host leaderboards, models to store their own eval scores, and the community to submit evaluation results via pull requests, with verified badges for reproducible results.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/community-evals:

> Benchmark datasets on Hugging Face can now host leaderboards. Models store their own eval scores. Everything links together. The community can submit results via PR. Verified badges prove that the results can be reproduced.

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