diff --git a/packages/bigquery/benchmark/README.md b/packages/bigquery/benchmark/README.md
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+# BigQuery Benchmark
+This directory contains benchmarks for BigQuery client.
+
+## Usage
+`node bench.js queries.json`
+
+BigQuery service caches requests so the benchmark should be run
+at least twice, disregarding the first result.
diff --git a/packages/bigquery/benchmark/bench.js b/packages/bigquery/benchmark/bench.js
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+/*!
+ * Copyright 2017 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const async = require('async');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const BigQuery = require('../src/index.js');
+const env = require('../../../system-test/env.js');
+
+if (process.argv.length < 3) {
+  throw new Error(`need query file; ` +
+    `usage: '${process.argv[0]} ${process.argv[1]} <queries.json>'`);
+}
+
+var queryJson = fs.readFileSync(process.argv[2]);
+var queries = JSON.parse(queryJson);
+var client = new BigQuery(env);
+
+var doQuery = function(queryTxt, callback) {
+  var startMilli = new Date().getTime();
+  var numRows = 0;
+  var numCols;
+  var timeFirstByteMilli;
+
+  var query = {
+    query: queryTxt,
+    useLegacySql: false
+  };
+
+  client
+    .createQueryStream(query)
+    .on('error', callback)
+    .on('data', function(row) {
+      if (numRows === 0) {
+        numCols = Object.keys(row).length;
+        timeFirstByteMilli = new Date().getTime() - startMilli;
+      } else if (numCols !== Object.keys(row).length) {
+        this.end();
+
+        var receivedCols = Object.keys(row).length;
+        var error = new Error(
+          `query "${queryTxt}": ` +
+            `wrong number of columns, want ${numCols} got ${receivedCols}`
+        );
+
+        callback(error);
+      }
+      numRows++;
+    })
+    .on('end', function() {
+      var timeTotalMilli = new Date().getTime() - startMilli;
+
+      console.log(
+        `query ${queryTxt}:`,
+          `got ${numRows} rows,`,
+          `${numCols} cols,`,
+          `first byte ${timeFirstByteMilli / 1000} sec,`,
+          `total ${timeTotalMilli / 1000} sec`
+      );
+
+      callback(null);
+    });
+};
+
+async.eachSeries(queries, doQuery, err => {
+  if (err) {
+    console.error(err);
+  }
+});
diff --git a/packages/bigquery/benchmark/queries.json b/packages/bigquery/benchmark/queries.json
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+[
+  "SELECT * FROM `nyc-tlc.yellow.trips` LIMIT 10000",
+  "SELECT * FROM `nyc-tlc.yellow.trips` LIMIT 100000",
+  "SELECT * FROM `nyc-tlc.yellow.trips` LIMIT 1000000",
+  "SELECT title FROM `bigquery-public-data.samples.wikipedia` ORDER BY title LIMIT 1000",
+  "SELECT title, id, timestamp, contributor_ip FROM `bigquery-public-data.samples.wikipedia` WHERE title like 'Blo%' ORDER BY id",
+  "SELECT * FROM `bigquery-public-data.baseball.games_post_wide` ORDER BY gameId",
+  "SELECT * FROM `bigquery-public-data.samples.github_nested` WHERE repository.has_downloads ORDER BY repository.created_at LIMIT 10000",
+  "SELECT repo_name, path FROM `bigquery-public-data.github_repos.files` WHERE path LIKE '%.java' ORDER BY id LIMIT 1000000"
+]
diff --git a/packages/bigquery/package.json b/packages/bigquery/package.json
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--- a/packages/bigquery/package.json
+++ b/packages/bigquery/package.json
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@
   "scripts": {
     "publish-module": "node ../../scripts/publish.js bigquery",
     "test": "mocha test/*.js",
-    "system-test": "mocha system-test/*.js --no-timeouts --bail"
+    "system-test": "mocha system-test/*.js --no-timeouts --bail",
+    "benchmark": "time node benchmark/bench.js benchmark/queries.json"
   },
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "engines": {