diff --git a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/ml/JavaBisectingKMeansExample.java b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/ml/JavaBisectingKMeansExample.java
index 8c82aaaacc..f517dc314b 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/ml/JavaBisectingKMeansExample.java
+++ b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/ml/JavaBisectingKMeansExample.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package org.apache.spark.examples.ml;
 // $example on$
 import org.apache.spark.ml.clustering.BisectingKMeans;
 import org.apache.spark.ml.clustering.BisectingKMeansModel;
+import org.apache.spark.ml.evaluation.ClusteringEvaluator;
 import org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.Vector;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.Row;
@@ -50,9 +51,14 @@ public class JavaBisectingKMeansExample {
     BisectingKMeans bkm = new BisectingKMeans().setK(2).setSeed(1);
     BisectingKMeansModel model = bkm.fit(dataset);
 
-    // Evaluate clustering.
-    double cost = model.computeCost(dataset);
-    System.out.println("Within Set Sum of Squared Errors = " + cost);
+    // Make predictions
+    Dataset<Row> predictions = model.transform(dataset);
+
+    // Evaluate clustering by computing Silhouette score
+    ClusteringEvaluator evaluator = new ClusteringEvaluator();
+
+    double silhouette = evaluator.evaluate(predictions);
+    System.out.println("Silhouette with squared euclidean distance = " + silhouette);
 
     // Shows the result.
     System.out.println("Cluster Centers: ");
diff --git a/examples/src/main/python/ml/bisecting_k_means_example.py b/examples/src/main/python/ml/bisecting_k_means_example.py
index 7842d2009e..82adb338b5 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/python/ml/bisecting_k_means_example.py
+++ b/examples/src/main/python/ml/bisecting_k_means_example.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ from __future__ import print_function
 
 # $example on$
 from pyspark.ml.clustering import BisectingKMeans
+from pyspark.ml.evaluation import ClusteringEvaluator
 # $example off$
 from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
 
@@ -41,9 +42,14 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     bkm = BisectingKMeans().setK(2).setSeed(1)
     model = bkm.fit(dataset)
 
-    # Evaluate clustering.
-    cost = model.computeCost(dataset)
-    print("Within Set Sum of Squared Errors = " + str(cost))
+    # Make predictions
+    predictions = model.transform(dataset)
+
+    # Evaluate clustering by computing Silhouette score
+    evaluator = ClusteringEvaluator()
+
+    silhouette = evaluator.evaluate(predictions)
+    print("Silhouette with squared euclidean distance = " + str(silhouette))
 
     # Shows the result.
     print("Cluster Centers: ")
diff --git a/examples/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/examples/ml/BisectingKMeansExample.scala b/examples/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/examples/ml/BisectingKMeansExample.scala
index 5f8f2c99cb..14e13df027 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/examples/ml/BisectingKMeansExample.scala
+++ b/examples/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/examples/ml/BisectingKMeansExample.scala
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ package org.apache.spark.examples.ml
 
 // $example on$
 import org.apache.spark.ml.clustering.BisectingKMeans
+import org.apache.spark.ml.evaluation.ClusteringEvaluator
 // $example off$
 import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
 
@@ -48,9 +49,14 @@ object BisectingKMeansExample {
     val bkm = new BisectingKMeans().setK(2).setSeed(1)
     val model = bkm.fit(dataset)
 
-    // Evaluate clustering.
-    val cost = model.computeCost(dataset)
-    println(s"Within Set Sum of Squared Errors = $cost")
+    // Make predictions
+    val predictions = model.transform(dataset)
+
+    // Evaluate clustering by computing Silhouette score
+    val evaluator = new ClusteringEvaluator()
+
+    val silhouette = evaluator.evaluate(predictions)
+    println(s"Silhouette with squared euclidean distance = $silhouette")
 
     // Shows the result.
     println("Cluster Centers: ")