diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 44270530..5910099e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Added
+* `cargoBench` can now be used to run cargo benchmarks
+
 ### Changed
 * A warning will now be emitted if a derivation's `pname` or `version`
   attributes are not set and the value cannot be loaded from the derivation's
diff --git a/lib/cargoBench.nix b/lib/cargoBench.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1954bf9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/cargoBench.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{ mkCargoDerivation
+}:
+
+{ cargoExtraArgs ? ""
+, cargoBenchExtraArgs ? ""
+, ...
+}@origArgs:
+let
+  args = builtins.removeAttrs origArgs [
+    "cargoExtraArgs"
+    "cargoBenchExtraArgs"
+  ];
+in
+mkCargoDerivation (args // {
+  pnameSuffix = "-bench";
+
+  buildPhaseCargoCommand = "cargoWithProfile bench ${cargoExtraArgs} ${cargoBenchExtraArgs}";
+})
diff --git a/lib/default.nix b/lib/default.nix
index 35a4fd84..839342fe 100644
--- a/lib/default.nix
+++ b/lib/default.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ in
   buildDepsOnly = callPackage ./buildDepsOnly.nix { };
   buildPackage = callPackage ./buildPackage.nix { };
   cargoAudit = callPackage ./cargoAudit.nix { };
+  cargoBench = callPackage ./cargoBench.nix { };
   cargoBuild = callPackage ./cargoBuild.nix { };
   cargoClippy = callPackage ./cargoClippy.nix { };
   cargoDoc = callPackage ./cargoDoc.nix { };