diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
index 2a45aaa..581cbcd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install -r benchmark/requirements.txt
-        pip install .
+        pip install .[benchmark]
     - name: Run benchmark
       run: |
         python scripts/repo_coverage.py run
diff --git a/benchmark/requirements.txt b/benchmark/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 17fd981..0000000
--- a/benchmark/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-pandas
-requests
-tabulate
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9897a3a..646a5c2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ datahugger = "datahugger.__main__:main"
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 all = ["datasets"]
+benchmark = ["pandas", "requests", "tabulate"]
 lint = ["ruff"]
 test = ["pytest"]
 docs = ["mkdocs-material"]