diff --git a/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml b/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml
index 4180b482..a2645ae3 100644
--- a/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml
+++ b/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
         fi
       done
     - python3 benchmarks/cybermetric/CyberMetric_evaluator.py --model_name $MODEL_NAME --file_path $BENCHMARK_FILE
-    # - curl http://localhost:8000/api/tags  # validate that ollama is running
+    # - curl http://localhost:8000/api/tags  # validate that ollama is running
   variables:
     OLLAMA_API_BASE: "http://localhost:8000"
     OPENROUTER_API_BASE: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
@@ -54,4 +54,5 @@ benchmarks-test-cybermetric-openai:
   <<: *run_benchmarks
   variables:
     MODEL_NAME: "openai/gpt-4o-mini"
-    BENCHMARK_FILE: "benchmarks/cybermetric/CyberMetric-2-v1.json"
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+    BENCHMARK_FILE: "benchmarks/cybermetric/CyberMetric-2-v1.json"
+    OPENAI_API_KEY: ${OPENAI_API_KEY}
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