diff --git a/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml b/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml
index 0ac455a3..49c2faa2 100644
--- a/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml
+++ b/ci/benchmarks/.benchmarks.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     - pip install litellm langchain transformers torch openai tqdm
     - |
       for var in $(compgen -e); do
-        if [[ $var == CTF_* && -n ${!var} ]]; then
+        if [[ ($var == CTF_* || $var == *_API_KEY || $var == *_API_BASE) && -n ${!var} ]]; then
           export $var="${!var}"
         fi
       done
@@ -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"
+    # GitLab will use the OPENAI_API_KEY defined in CI/CD variables
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