diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9b1ee546d71..4c039ccdeae 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -44,11 +44,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "acir",
  "acvm_blackbox_solver",
  "brillig_vm",
- "criterion",
  "indexmap 1.9.3",
  "num-bigint",
  "paste",
- "pprof 0.13.0",
  "proptest",
  "rand 0.8.5",
  "thiserror",
diff --git a/acvm-repo/acvm/Cargo.toml b/acvm-repo/acvm/Cargo.toml
index b19ce6d614f..e6554d3f773 100644
--- a/acvm-repo/acvm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/acvm-repo/acvm/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,9 +40,3 @@ bls12_381 = [
 rand = "0.8.5"
 proptest = "1.2.0"
 paste = "1.0.14"
-criterion.workspace = true
-pprof.workspace = true
-
-[[bench]]
-name = "criterion"
-harness = false