# What is Calibration?

> Source: https://openclawdatabase.com/glossary/calibration/
> Last updated: 2026-04-18
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# What is Calibration?

Whether a model's stated confidence matches how often it is actually right: in a well-calibrated system, the predictions it labels 90% are correct about 90% of the time. It is a separate property from accuracy — a model can be accurate but overconfident, which is worse for automation because the confidence threshold you use to route work to a human stops meaning anything. Check it by bucketing predictions by confidence and measuring each bucket against a labelled set of your own data.

## See also

- [Use Cases](https://openclawdatabase.com/jev/use-cases/)
- [Benchmarks](https://openclawdatabase.com/benchmarks/)
- [Benchmark](https://openclawdatabase.com/glossary/benchmark/)

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