Manual prompt tuning doesn't scale
Every team building with LLMs hits the same wall. You write a prompt, it works okay, and then you spend days tweaking it — rephrasing instructions, adjusting examples, restructuring output formats — trying to squeeze out better results.
LLM Engineers
Building classification, extraction, or summarization into a product? Replace guesswork with data on which prompt actually performs best.
Engineering Managers
Your team is spending days on prompt tuning instead of shipping features. EigenPrompt condenses that work into a 5–10 minute automated run.
CTOs & Product Leaders
Concerned about LLM costs at scale? See the exact trade-off between quality and cost — quantified, not guessed.
From prompt to Pareto frontier
You provide your current prompt and an evaluation dataset. EigenPrompt systematically generates and tests hundreds of variations, then shows you the best options on an interactive cost-vs-quality chart.
Define what "good" looks like
Provide an evaluation dataset — example inputs paired with expected outputs. This is the yardstick EigenPrompt uses to measure whether a variation is actually better. A good dataset has 50–200 examples. Upload a CSV, or generate a synthetic dataset directly from the platform.
Provide your prompt
Paste in the prompt you're currently using. If it has variable placeholders (like {{customer_name}} or {{document_text}}), EigenPrompt detects them automatically and maps them to your dataset columns.
Choose your model and go
Select your LLM provider and model, pick an optimization preset, and launch. Results stream to your browser in real time.
| Preset | Iterations | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 8 | Quick exploration, most use cases |
| Advanced | 8 | Deeper search with higher cost budget |
| Max | 15 | Thorough optimization for production-critical prompts |
Pick the winner and deploy
Click any point on the Pareto frontier to inspect the full prompt text, its quality score, cost per call, and latency. Copy it in one click and drop it into your application.
The Pareto frontier, explained
You want the best quality at the lowest cost. No single prompt wins on both — the most accurate ones use more tokens and cost more. But there's a set of prompts where you can't improve one dimension without worsening the other. That set is the Pareto frontier, and it contains every worthwhile option.
Every blue point represents a prompt that can't be beaten in both dimensions simultaneously - together they form the Pareto frontier. The grey points to the bottom right are strictly worse - aka dominated - meaning a frontier prompt exists that is either cheaper at the same quality, or better at the same cost, or both. Your original prompt appears as a diamond baseline marker, so you can see how much headroom exists at a glance.
Entity resolution in 8 minutes
A data engineering team used EigenPrompt to optimize their entity-matching prompt — a common task where small prompt differences measurably affect accuracy and cost. One Standard run (8 iterations, ~8 minutes) produced:
Baseline
0.72
accuracy
Best Quality
0.91
accuracy · +26%
Best Value
0.73
accuracy · -62% cost
Both improved prompts sat on the Pareto frontier. The team deployed the high-accuracy variant for their production pipeline and the cheap variant for bulk data cleaning jobs. Two prompts, two use cases, one optimization run.
Your data has bugs too
During optimization, hundreds of prompt variations evaluate every example in your dataset. When nearly all prompts disagree with the expected output, it usually means the label is wrong — not the prompts.
Here, the expected labels say “account” or “general” but the majority of prompts consistently answer “billing.” This kind of labeling error silently caps optimization performance — EigenPrompt catches it automatically.
What happens behind the scenes
When you launch a run, EigenPrompt doesn't randomly rewrite your prompt. It uses a multi-strategy optimization loop that learns from each iteration:
Baseline evaluation
Your current prompt is evaluated against the full dataset to establish a performance anchor.
Variation generation
Dozens of strategies are applied — improving accuracy, cutting token count, restructuring reasoning flow — to produce candidate prompts.
Training-set screening
Each variation is tested on a training subset first. A preflight check catches obviously broken variants before wasting evaluation budget.
Held-out validation
Surviving candidates are evaluated on a held-out test set for reliable scoring. Only non-dominated candidates are retained.
Iterate & refine
The system learns from what worked and generates smarter variations each round. Batching (multiple examples per LLM call) keeps optimization costs low.
What kind of tasks work best?
EigenPrompt is designed for single, well-defined LLM tasks within a larger workflow — tasks where success is clearly measurable.
| Task type | Evaluation approach | Why it works well |
|---|---|---|
| Entity extraction | Quantitative (exact/fuzzy) | Clear right answers, easy to measure |
| Classification / routing | Quantitative (exact match) | Discrete categories, objective scoring |
| Summarization | Qualitative (LLM judge) | Quality is subjective but rankable |
| Information extraction | Quantitative (substring) | Structured outputs, verifiable |
| Tool calling | Quantitative (exact match) | Correct function + parameters or not |
| Content generation | Qualitative (judge + rubric) | Define "good", let the judge score it |
Less suited: Open-ended creative writing with no evaluation criteria, or highly interactive multi-turn conversations where a single prompt doesn't capture the full picture.
100+ models, all major providers
Choose separate models for evaluation (the model you're optimizing for production) and meta operations (the model that generates prompt variations). These can be from different providers.
Simple, credit-based pricing
One credit = one optimization run. LLM inference costs go through your own provider accounts — the platform estimates total LLM cost before each run, and you set a maximum budget ($1–$1,000).
| Plan | Credits / month | Dataset limit | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 100 | 100 examples | $99 / month |
| Pro | 500 | 1,000 examples | $299 / month |
| Business | 2,000 | 10,000 examples | $999 / month |
Improvement guarantee: If EigenPrompt doesn't find a prompt that improves on your baseline in at least one dimension, your credit is refunded automatically — no support ticket required.
How your data is protected
A healthy dose of scepticism when a platform asks for your API keys and evaluation data is entirely reasonable. Here's exactly what happens.
You bring your own API keys. EigenPrompt doesn't resell API access or proxy through shared accounts. Usage appears on your own provider dashboard, your rate limits apply, and you can revoke access at any time by rotating your keys.
Evaluation data encryption: Your datasets and run data are encrypted at rest with per-account AES-256-GCM keys derived via HKDF. Deleted datasets and runs are soft-deleted immediately and hard-purged on a retention schedule. Account deletion purges all associated data and anonymizes your record.
Up and running in five minutes
Sign up at eigenprompt.ai and start a trial.
Store your API keys in Settings — encrypted and PIN-protected.
Create a new optimization — a guided wizard walks you through every step.
Upload your eval dataset as a CSV, or generate a synthetic one to experiment.
Launch the run and watch the Pareto frontier build in real time.
Pick the best prompt for your needs and deploy it.