diff --git a/src/lm_buddy/jobs/ragas/entrypoint.py b/src/lm_buddy/jobs/ragas/entrypoint.py
index 32bde96f..fa6b4b61 100644
--- a/src/lm_buddy/jobs/ragas/entrypoint.py
+++ b/src/lm_buddy/jobs/ragas/entrypoint.py
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
+import os
 from pathlib import Path
 
 import ray
 from datasets import Dataset, DatasetDict, IterableDataset, IterableDatasetDict, load_dataset
+from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
+from langchain_core.embeddings import Embeddings
 from ragas import evaluate
 
 from lm_buddy.integrations.wandb import get_wandb_summary, update_wandb_summary
@@ -48,13 +51,33 @@ def _load_dataset_for_ragas_eval(
 
 
 def evaluation_task(config: RagasEvaluationJobConfig) -> None:
+    # ragas custom model args
+    ragas_args = {}
+
+    # set up custom embedding model for ragas (only supports langchain embedding models right now)
+    if config.judge_model.embedding_model:
+        ragas_args["embeddings"] = Embeddings(
+            model=config.judge_model.embedding_model
+        )  # any langchain embedding instance
+
+    # set up custom judge LLM model (called from vllm server)
+    if config.judge_model.language_model:
+        # create vLLM Langchain instance
+        vllm_entry = ChatOpenAI(
+            model=config.judge_model.language_model,
+            openai_api_key=config.judge_model.openai_api_key,
+            # get api endpoint from environment variable
+            openai_api_base=os.environ.get("VLLM_JUDGE_ENDPOINT"),
+            max_tokens=config.judge_model.max_tokens,
+            temperature=config.judge_model.temperature,
+        )
+
+        ragas_args["llm"] = vllm_entry
+
     dataset = _load_dataset_for_ragas_eval(config)
 
     print("Initializing ragas eval task...")
-    result = evaluate(
-        dataset=dataset,
-        metrics=config.metrics,
-    )
+    result = evaluate(dataset=dataset, metrics=config.metrics, **ragas_args)
 
     print(f"Obtained evaluation results: {result}")
 
diff --git a/src/lm_buddy/jobs/ragas/ragas_config.py b/src/lm_buddy/jobs/ragas/ragas_config.py
index 0da30fde..41c07c32 100644
--- a/src/lm_buddy/jobs/ragas/ragas_config.py
+++ b/src/lm_buddy/jobs/ragas/ragas_config.py
@@ -32,17 +32,25 @@ class RagasConfig(BaseLMBuddyConfig):
 class RagasvLLMJudgeConfig(BaseLMBuddyConfig):
     """
     Configuration class for a vLLM hosted judge model
-    Requires a vLLM endpoint that the model will hit instead of the openAI default
+    Requires a vLLM endpoint that the model will hit instead of the openAI default,
+    the url for which is to be passed as env variable
     """
 
-    model: AutoModelConfig
-    # inference_server_url: str | None = "http://localhost:8080/v1"
-    openai_api_key: str | None = "no-key"
+    language_model: AutoModelConfig
+    embedding_model: AutoModelConfig
+    openai_api_key: str | None = "nokey"
     max_tokens: int | None = 5
     temperature: float | None = 0
 
-    @field_validator("model", mode="before", always=True)
-    def validate_model_arg(cls, x):
+    @field_validator("language_model", mode="before", always=True)
+    def validate_inference_model_arg(cls, x):
+        """Allow for passing just a path string as the model argument."""
+        if isinstance(x, str):
+            return AutoModelConfig(load_from=x)
+        return x
+
+    @field_validator("embedding_model", mode="before", always=True)
+    def validate_embedding_model_arg(cls, x):
         """Allow for passing just a path string as the model argument."""
         if isinstance(x, str):
             return AutoModelConfig(load_from=x)
@@ -77,6 +85,7 @@ class RagasEvaluationJobConfig(BaseLMBuddyConfig):
     """
 
     # evaluation settings for ragas
+
     dataset: RagasEvaluationDatasetConfig
     evaluator: RagasConfig