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September 17, 2025

Experiment Runner SDK

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Experiment Runner SDK

New high-level SDK abstraction for running experiments on datasets with automatic tracing, concurrent execution, and flexible evaluation.

Both the Python and JS/TS SDKs now provide a high-level abstraction for running experiments on datasets. The dataset can be both local or hosted on Langfuse. Using the Experiment runner is the recommended way to run an experiment on a dataset with our SDK.

Key Features

The experiment runner automatically handles:

  • Concurrent execution of tasks with configurable limits
  • Automatic tracing of all executions for observability
  • Flexible evaluation with both item-level and run-level evaluators
  • Error isolation so individual failures don’t stop the experiment
  • Traces in Langfuse even though the core task function is not instrumented by automatic input / return value capture
  • Dataset integration for easy comparison and tracking

Example

from langfuse import get_client
from langfuse.openai import OpenAI
 
# Initialize client
langfuse = get_client()
 
# Define your task function
def my_task(*, item, **kwargs):
    question = item["input"]
 
    response = OpenAI().chat.completions.create(
        model="gpt-4.1", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": question}]
    )
 
    return response.choices[0].message.content
 
# Run experiment on local data
local_data = [
    {"input": "What is the capital of France?"},
    {"input": "What is the capital of Germany?"},
]
 
result = langfuse.run_experiment(
    name="Geography Quiz",
    description="Testing basic functionality",
    data=local_data,
    task=my_task,
)
 
# Pretty print results
print(result.format())

This prints:

1. Item 1:
   Input:    What is the capital of France?
   Actual:   The capital of France is Paris.

   Trace ID: e52488cb13d426f55a2a7c178d4cb0d0

2. Item 2:
   Input:    What is the capital of Germany?
   Actual:   The capital of Germany is **Berlin**.

   Trace ID: 188cd8fc165446fa957a7c15423cbe0e

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📊 Geography Quiz - Testing basic functionality
2 items

Get Started

Learn more about the experiment runner incl. how to use it with Langfuse datasets, adding evaluators and more in our remote dataset runs documentation.

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