diff --git a/parea/client.py b/parea/client.py
index 92a0d195..531dffc2 100644
--- a/parea/client.py
+++ b/parea/client.py
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 RECORD_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT = "/feedback"
 EXPERIMENT_ENDPOINT = "/experiment"
 EXPERIMENT_STATS_ENDPOINT = "/experiment/{experiment_uuid}/stats"
+EXPERIMENT_FINISHED_ENDPOINT = "/experiment/{experiment_uuid}/finished"
 
 
 @define
@@ -147,6 +148,20 @@ async def aget_experiment_stats(self, experiment_uuid: str) -> ExperimentStatsSc
         )
         return structure(r.json(), ExperimentStatsSchema)
 
+    def finish_experiment(self, experiment_uuid: str) -> ExperimentStatsSchema:
+        r = self._client.request(
+            "POST",
+            EXPERIMENT_FINISHED_ENDPOINT.format(experiment_uuid=experiment_uuid),
+        )
+        return structure(r.json(), ExperimentStatsSchema)
+
+    async def afinish_experiment(self, experiment_uuid: str) -> ExperimentSchema:
+        r = await self._client.request_async(
+            "POST",
+            EXPERIMENT_FINISHED_ENDPOINT.format(experiment_uuid=experiment_uuid),
+        )
+        return structure(r.json(), ExperimentStatsSchema)
+
 
 _initialized_parea_wrapper = False
 
diff --git a/parea/experiment/experiment.py b/parea/experiment/experiment.py
index 62784f8e..010aa935 100644
--- a/parea/experiment/experiment.py
+++ b/parea/experiment/experiment.py
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ def experiment(name: str, data: Iterable[Dict], func: Callable) -> ExperimentSta
             asyncio.run(func(**data_input))
         else:
             func(**data_input)
-    time.sleep(5)  # wait for all trace logs to be written to DB
-    experiment_stats: ExperimentStatsSchema = p.get_experiment_stats(experiment_uuid)
+    time.sleep(5)  # wait for any evaluation to finish which is executed in the background
+    experiment_stats: ExperimentStatsSchema = p.finish_experiment(experiment_uuid)
     stat_name_to_avg_std = calculate_avg_std_for_experiment(experiment_stats)
     print(f"Experiment stats:\n{json.dumps(stat_name_to_avg_std, indent=2)}\n\n")
     print(f"View experiment & its traces at: https://app.parea.ai/experiments/{experiment_uuid}\n")
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 12cb7de8..bba6c61e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "parea-ai"
 packages = [{ include = "parea" }]
-version = "0.2.31"
+version = "0.2.32"
 description = "Parea python sdk"
 readme = "README.md"
 authors = ["joel-parea-ai <joel@parea.ai>"]