diff --git a/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml b/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml
index a2645ae3..0ac455a3 100644
--- a/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml
+++ b/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
           export $var="${!var}"
         fi
       done
-    - python3 benchmarks/cybermetric/CyberMetric_evaluator.py --model_name $MODEL_NAME --file_path $BENCHMARK_FILE
+    - python3 benchmarks/cybermetric/CyberMetric_evaluator.py --model_name $MODEL_NAME --file_path $BENCHMARK_FILE --api_key $OPENAI_API_KEY
     # - curl http://localhost:8000/api/tags  # validate that ollama is running
   variables:
     OLLAMA_API_BASE: "http://localhost:8000"
@@ -54,5 +54,4 @@ benchmarks-test-cybermetric-openai:
   <<: *run_benchmarks
   variables:
     MODEL_NAME: "openai/gpt-4o-mini"
-    BENCHMARK_FILE: "benchmarks/cybermetric/CyberMetric-2-v1.json"
-    OPENAI_API_KEY: ${OPENAI_API_KEY}
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+    BENCHMARK_FILE: "benchmarks/cybermetric/CyberMetric-2-v1.json"
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