diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmark-testing.yaml b/.github/workflows/benchmark-testing.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 608e58abf..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmark-testing.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-name: "Benchmark testing"
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  pull_request:
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-
-  Benchmark-Test:
-    name: "Benchmark tests"
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    # note: we want benchmarks to run on pull_request events in order to publish results to a sticky comment, and
-    # we also want to run on push such that merges to main are recorded to the cache. For this reason we don't filter
-    # the job by event.
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-      - name: Bootstrap environment
-        uses: ./.github/actions/bootstrap
-
-      - name: Restore base benchmark result
-        uses: actions/cache@5a3ec84eff668545956fd18022155c47e93e2684 #v4.2.3
-        with:
-          path: test/results/benchmark-main.txt
-          # use base sha for PR or new commit hash for main push in benchmark result key
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-bench-${{ (github.event.pull_request.base.sha != github.event.after) && github.event.pull_request.base.sha || github.event.after }}
-
-      - name: Run benchmark tests
-        id: benchmark
-        run: |
-          REF_NAME=${GITHUB_REF##*/} make benchmark
-          OUTPUT=$(make show-benchstat)
-          OUTPUT="${OUTPUT//'%'/'%25'}"   # URL encode all '%' characters
-          OUTPUT="${OUTPUT//$'\n'/'%0A'}" # URL encode all '\n' characters
-          OUTPUT="${OUTPUT//$'\r'/'%0D'}" # URL encode all '\r' characters
-          echo "result=$OUTPUT" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02 # v4.6.2
-        with:
-          name: benchmark-test-results
-          path: test/results/**/*
-
-      - name: Update PR benchmark results comment
-        uses: marocchino/sticky-pull-request-comment@67d0dec7b07ed060a405f9b2a64b8ab319fdd7db #v2.9.2
-        continue-on-error: true
-        with:
-          header: benchmark
-          message: |
-            ### Benchmark Test Results
-
-            <details>
-              <summary>Benchmark results from the latest changes vs base branch</summary>
-
-            ```
-            ${{ steps.benchmark.outputs.result }}
-            ```
-
-            </details>
diff --git a/Taskfile.yaml b/Taskfile.yaml
index e07b4c564..88e462128 100644
--- a/Taskfile.yaml
+++ b/Taskfile.yaml
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ tasks:
       - task: unit
       - task: integration
       - task: validate-cyclonedx-schema
-      - task: benchmark
       - task: test-utils
       - task: cli
       - task: check-docker-cache