DigitalOcean Evaluations Limits
Last verified 12 Oct 2026
DigitalOcean Evaluations measure model, Inference Router, and agent performance using dataset evaluations and simulations.
Limits
- Each evaluation can use up to 10 selected metrics, including custom metrics.
- Access to commercial models from OpenAI and Anthropic as candidate or judge models requires a tier 2 account. To move to tier 2 and unlock model access, complete a prepayment in the DigitalOcean Control Panel.
Dataset Evaluation Limits
- Each dataset can contain up to 1,000 rows. For multi-turn datasets, the limit is 1,000 conversations.
- Each dataset can be up to 1 GB, regardless of team tier.
- You cannot rename datasets after creation.
- In the Control Panel, custom metrics are available only for single-turn dataset evaluations.
Simulation Limits public
- Each scenario set can contain up to 10 scenarios. Generating a scenario set from a goal creates from 1 to 10 scenarios.
- Each uploaded scenario set file can be up to 5 MB.
- Scenario set names can be up to 255 characters.
- The
max_turnsvalue for an uploaded scenario must be from1through10. - Each scenario can have up to 10 tags. Each tag can be up to 64 characters and can contain only letters, numbers, hyphens (
-), and underscores (_). - Each simulation run can use up to 10 turns per scenario and up to five episodes per scenario.
- You cannot change the scenarios in, or delete, a scenario set while any simulation run references it. To change the scenarios, duplicate the set and edit the copy.
- You can only delete a simulation run after it reaches a terminal status: succeeded, partially successful, failed, or cancelled.
- In the Control Panel, simulations use only the built-in multi-turn evaluation metrics and do not offer custom metrics. When you create a simulation run using the API, you can also use custom metrics.
Preset and Custom Metric Limits
- Each team can create up to 100 evaluation presets.
- Each team can create up to 100 custom metrics.
- Each custom metric must contain fewer than 8,192 characters.
- You can only delete custom metrics from the evaluation creation page.
To request a higher preset or custom metric limit, contact support.