diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 8886a27..38362d5 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 export { evaluate } from "./evaluate.js";
 export { scorer } from "./scorer.js";
+export { llmJudge } from "./judge.js";
 
 export { aggregate } from "./aggregate.js";
 export { loadBaseline, gate } from "./gate.js";
diff --git a/src/judge.ts b/src/judge.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f6b0dbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/judge.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import type { Scorer } from './types.js'
+
+/**
+ * Build a {@link Scorer} that asks an LLM judge to grade the task output
+ * against the case's expected value. Scores 1 when the judge answers CORRECT,
+ * 0 otherwise, with the judge's reply as the reason.
+ *
+ * Requires `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` in the environment.
+ *
+ * @param opts `model` selects the judge model (an OpenRouter model id).
+ * @returns the scorer.
+ */
+export function llmJudge<I, O, E>(opts: { model?: string } = {}): Scorer<I, O, E> {
+  const model = opts.model ?? 'anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5'
+
+  return {
+    name: 'llm-judge',
+    run: async ({ input, output, expected, report }) => {
+      const key = process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY
+      if (!key) throw new Error('llmJudge requires OPENROUTER_API_KEY to be set')
+
+      const res = await fetch('https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions', {
+        method: 'POST',
+        headers: { authorization: `Bearer ${key}`, 'content-type': 'application/json' },
+        body: JSON.stringify({
+          model,
+          messages: [
+            {
+              role: 'user',
+              content: [
+                'You are grading the output of a model against an expected answer.',
+                `Input: ${JSON.stringify(input)}`,
+                `Output: ${JSON.stringify(output)}`,
+                `Expected: ${JSON.stringify(expected)}`,
+                'Reply with exactly one word: CORRECT or INCORRECT.',
+              ].join('\n'),
+            },
+          ],
+        }),
+      })
+
+      if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`llmJudge request failed: ${res.status} ${await res.text()}`)
+
+      const data = (await res.json()) as {
+        choices?: { message?: { content?: string } }[]
+        usage?: { prompt_tokens?: number; completion_tokens?: number }
+      }
+
+      report({ inputTokens: data.usage?.prompt_tokens ?? 0, outputTokens: data.usage?.completion_tokens ?? 0 })
+
+      const text = data.choices?.[0]?.message?.content ?? ''
+      const score = /\bCORRECT\b/i.test(text) && !/\bINCORRECT\b/i.test(text) ? 1 : 0
+      return { score, reason: text.trim() }
+    },
+  }
+}
diff --git a/test/judge.test.ts b/test/judge.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..30d5a97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/judge.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { llmJudge } from '../src/judge.js'
+
+describe('llmJudge', () => {
+  const judge = llmJudge<{ q: string }, { a: string }, { a: string }>()
+
+  it('scores a correct answer as 1', async () => {
+    const value = await judge.run({
+      input: { q: 'What is 2 + 2?' },
+      output: { a: '4' },
+      expected: { a: '4' },
+      tags: [],
+      report: () => {},
+    })
+    expect(value).toMatchObject({ score: 1 })
+  }, 30_000)
+
+  it('scores an incorrect answer as 0', async () => {
+    const value = await judge.run({
+      input: { q: 'What is 2 + 2?' },
+      output: { a: '5' },
+      expected: { a: '4' },
+      tags: [],
+      report: () => {},
+    })
+    expect(value).toMatchObject({ score: 0 })
+  }, 30_000)
+})