diff --git a/spacy/cli/evaluate.py b/spacy/cli/evaluate.py
index 6235b658d..2276ca6b0 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/evaluate.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/evaluate.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ def evaluate_cli(
     displacy_path: Optional[Path] = Opt(None, "--displacy-path", "-dp", help="Directory to output rendered parses as HTML", exists=True, file_okay=False),
     displacy_limit: int = Opt(25, "--displacy-limit", "-dl", help="Limit of parses to render as HTML"),
     per_component: bool = Opt(False, "--per-component", "-P", help="Return scores per component, only applicable when an output JSON file is specified."),
+    spans_key: str = Opt("sc", "--spans-key", "-sk", help="Spans key to use when evaluating Doc.spans"),
     # fmt: on
 ):
     """
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ def evaluate_cli(
         displacy_limit=displacy_limit,
         per_component=per_component,
         silent=False,
+        spans_key=spans_key,
     )
 
 
diff --git a/website/docs/api/cli.mdx b/website/docs/api/cli.mdx
index d63ac6e1d..2646a848b 100644
--- a/website/docs/api/cli.mdx
+++ b/website/docs/api/cli.mdx
@@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ skew. To render a sample of dependency parses in a HTML file using the
 `--displacy-path` argument.
 
 ```bash
-$ python -m spacy benchmark accuracy [model] [data_path] [--output] [--code] [--gold-preproc] [--gpu-id] [--displacy-path] [--displacy-limit]
+$ python -m spacy benchmark accuracy [model] [data_path] [--output] [--code] [--gold-preproc] [--gpu-id] [--displacy-path] [--displacy-limit] [--per-component] [--spans-key]
 ```
 
 | Name                                                 | Description                                                                                                                                                                          |
@@ -1197,6 +1197,7 @@ $ python -m spacy benchmark accuracy [model] [data_path] [--output] [--code] [--
 | `--displacy-path`, `-dp`                             | Directory to output rendered parses as HTML. If not set, no visualizations will be generated. ~~Optional[Path] \(option)~~                                                           |
 | `--displacy-limit`, `-dl`                            | Number of parses to generate per file. Defaults to `25`. Keep in mind that a significantly higher number might cause the `.html` files to render slowly. ~~int (option)~~            |
 | `--per-component`, `-P` <Tag variant="new">3.6</Tag> | Whether to return the scores keyed by component name. Defaults to `False`. ~~bool (flag)~~                                                                                           |
+| `--spans-key`, `-sk`                                 | Spans key to use when evaluating `Doc.spans`. Defaults to `sc`. ~~str (option)~~                                                                                                     |
 | `--help`, `-h`                                       | Show help message and available arguments. ~~bool (flag)~~                                                                                                                           |
 | **CREATES**                                          | Training results and optional metrics and visualizations.                                                                                                                            |