> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://handbook.sutro.sh/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Temperature

> How to tune model temperature with evals instead of assuming zero temperature is always best for consistency.

## Temperature

We briefly mentioned this above, but setting model [temperature to zero](/patterns/consistency/determinism) is not an answer to both consistency AND task reliability. Setting a lower temperature than default may be strategic, but you'll likely want to run [evals](/patterns/evals) against an [annotated dataset](/patterns/context/expert-annotation) to find what the optimal setting is for the model and task combination.