Glossary term
Answer relevancy
Answer relevancy is an LLM evaluation metric that scores how directly a response addresses the question that was asked. A relevant answer can still be wrong, so teams usually pair it with faithfulness or correctness checks rather than using it alone as a quality gate.
Read the full guide: LLM Evaluation Metrics: What They Measure and Which to Use (2026)
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