diff --git a/browsergym/visualwebarena/requirements.txt b/browsergym/visualwebarena/requirements.txt
index 8317960f..17f7e56a 100644
--- a/browsergym/visualwebarena/requirements.txt
+++ b/browsergym/visualwebarena/requirements.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ browsergym-core==0.11.3
 browsergym-webarena
 libvisualwebarena==0.0.14
 requests
+torch
diff --git a/browsergym/visualwebarena/src/browsergym/visualwebarena/task.py b/browsergym/visualwebarena/src/browsergym/visualwebarena/task.py
index 6032410b..b6b7f91e 100644
--- a/browsergym/visualwebarena/src/browsergym/visualwebarena/task.py
+++ b/browsergym/visualwebarena/src/browsergym/visualwebarena/task.py
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@
 import pathlib
 import tempfile
 import urllib.parse
-from typing import Optional, Tuple
+from typing import Literal, Optional, Tuple
 
 import playwright.sync_api
 import requests
+import torch
 
 from browsergym.core.task import AbstractBrowserTask
 
@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ def __init__(
         task_id: Optional[int] = None,
         intent_template_id: Optional[int] = None,
         with_na_hint: bool = False,
+        eval_captioning_model_device: Literal["cpu", "cuda"] = "cpu",
     ) -> None:
         super().__init__(seed)
 
@@ -112,6 +114,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.webarena_instance = VisualWebArenaInstance()
         self.config_file: str = None
         self.with_na_hint = with_na_hint
+        self.eval_captioning_model_device = eval_captioning_model_device
 
         # one and only one of task id and template id must be provided
         if (task_id is None) == (intent_template_id is None):
@@ -161,6 +164,7 @@ def __init__(
     def setup(self, page: playwright.sync_api.Page) -> tuple[str, dict]:
         # import webarena on instanciation
         from visualwebarena.evaluation_harness.evaluators import evaluator_router
+        from visualwebarena.evaluation_harness.image_utils import get_captioning_fn
 
         # pick a task at random
         self.config = self.random.choice(self.task_configs)
@@ -172,7 +176,16 @@ def setup(self, page: playwright.sync_api.Page) -> tuple[str, dict]:
             self.config_file = f.name
 
         # build the evaluator
-        self.evaluator = evaluator_router(self.config_file)
+        captioning_fn = get_captioning_fn(
+            device=self.eval_captioning_model_device,
+            dtype=(
+                torch.float16
+                if (self.eval_captioning_model_device == "cuda" and torch.cuda.is_available())
+                else torch.float32
+            ),
+            model_name="Salesforce/blip2-flan-t5-xl",
+        )
+        self.evaluator = evaluator_router(self.config_file, captioning_fn=captioning_fn)
 
         # reset instance if needed (classifieds domain only)
         if self.config.get("require_reset", False):