---
title: "Updates a benchmark using patch semantics."
method: PATCH
path: "/benchmark/{benchmarkId}"
tags: ["Benchmark"]
---

# Updates a benchmark using patch semantics.

`PATCH /benchmark/{benchmarkId}`

## Path parameters

- `benchmarkId` string, required

## Request body

- UpdateBenchmarkEndpointInput
  - `name` string — The new name of the benchmark.
  - `description` string — Optional plain-text credit for the people or sources behind the benchmark. Limited to 2000 characters; send null to clear it, omit to leave it unchanged.
  - `isPublic` boolean — Whether the benchmark should be public.
  - `isPublished` boolean — Whether the benchmark should be surfaced in the public benchmark repository.
  - `initialBoostLevel` integer, nullable — Initial boost level applied to the campaign of every run created from this benchmark. Pass null to clear the override and fall back to the benchmark default.
  - `minAssetsPerPrompt` integer, nullable — Optional submission quality gate. Set to at least 2 to warn on submit for prompts with 1..N-1 samples; pass null to clear the gate; omit to leave it unchanged.
  - `scoreShift` number, double — Additive offset applied to displayed scores on the benchmark's overall scoreboard.
  - `scoreScale` number, double — Multiplicative factor applied to displayed scores (relative to the Bradley-Terry center) on the overall scoreboard of this benchmark. Must be strictly positive.

## Response `204`

No Content

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `401` — Unauthenticated
- `403` — Forbidden

## Changes

- **2026-09-04** `9da534659e5f` — 2 info
  - the security scope `api` was added to the endpoint's security scheme `OpenIdConnect`
  - added the new optional request property `minAssetsPerPrompt`

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/rapidata/apis/rapidata-api/changes/benchmark/:benchmarkId/patch.md)

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