diff --git a/benchmarks/cybermetric/CyberMetric_evaluator.py b/benchmarks/cybermetric/CyberMetric_evaluator.py
index 1cbf1d93..61540419 100644
--- a/benchmarks/cybermetric/CyberMetric_evaluator.py
+++ b/benchmarks/cybermetric/CyberMetric_evaluator.py
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ import requests
 # Default API bases
 OPENROUTER_API_BASE = "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
 OLLAMA_LITELLM_API_BASE = "http://localhost:8000/v1"
+os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "test_key_for_ci_environment"
 
 class CyberMetricEvaluator:
     def __init__(self, model_name, file_path, api_key=None, openrouter_api_base=None, ollama_litellm_api_base=None):
diff --git a/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml b/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml
index 5f98384c..227d970c 100644
--- a/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml
+++ b/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ benchmarks-test-cybermetric:
   variables:    
     OLLAMA_API_BASE: "http://localhost:8000"
     OPENROUTER_API_BASE: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
-    OPENAI_API_KEY: "fake-api-key"
   script:
     - pip3 install -e .
     - python3 benchmarks/cybermetric/CyberMetric_evaluator.py --model_name ollama/qwen2.5:14b --file_path benchmarks/cybermetric/CyberMetric-2-v1.json