diff --git a/.github/workflows/codspeed.yml b/.github/workflows/codspeed.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4466811af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/codspeed.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: codspeed-benchmarks
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - "main"
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  benchmarks:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.12'
+      - run: python -m pip install .[tests] pytest-codspeed
+      - name: Run benchmarks
+        uses: CodspeedHQ/action@v2
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.CODSPEED_TOKEN }}
+          run: "pytest -vvv -r fEs --pyargs dkist --codspeed"
diff --git a/changelog/382.feature.rst b/changelog/382.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7c96dd31e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/382.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add GitHub workflow and dependencies for Codspeed, to benchmark PRs against main.
diff --git a/dkist/conftest.py b/dkist/conftest.py
index 21a216395..8c8e9e106 100644
--- a/dkist/conftest.py
+++ b/dkist/conftest.py
@@ -307,7 +307,16 @@ def small_visp_dataset():
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope="session")
-def large_visp_dataset(tmp_path_factory):
+def large_visp_dataset_file(tmp_path_factory):
+    vispdir = tmp_path_factory.mktemp("data")
+    with gzip.open(Path(rootdir) / "large_visp.asdf.gz", mode="rb") as gfo:
+        with open(vispdir / "test_visp.asdf", mode="wb") as afo:
+            afo.write(gfo.read())
+    return vispdir / "test_visp.asdf"
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+def large_visp_dataset(large_visp_dataset_file):
     # This dataset was generated by the following code:
     # from dkist_data_simulator.spec214.visp import SimpleVISPDataset
     # from dkist_inventory.asdf_generator import dataset_from_fits
@@ -319,8 +328,4 @@ def large_visp_dataset(tmp_path_factory):
     # ds.generate_files(vispdir)
     # dataset_from_fits(vispdir, "test_visp.asdf")
 
-    vispdir = tmp_path_factory.mktemp("data")
-    with gzip.open(Path(rootdir) / "large_visp.asdf.gz", mode="rb") as gfo:
-        with open(vispdir / "test_visp.asdf", mode="wb") as afo:
-            afo.write(gfo.read())
-    return load_dataset(vispdir / "test_visp.asdf")
+    return load_dataset(large_visp_dataset_file)
diff --git a/dkist/tests/test_benchmarks.py b/dkist/tests/test_benchmarks.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..44a2ecb78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dkist/tests/test_benchmarks.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+import pytest
+
+from dkist import load_dataset
+
+
+@pytest.mark.benchmark
+def test_load_asdf(benchmark, large_visp_dataset_file):
+    benchmark(load_dataset, large_visp_dataset_file)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.benchmark
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("axes", [
+    ["y", "x", None, None],
+    ["y", None, "x", None],
+    ["y", None, None, "x"],
+    [None, "y", "x", None],
+    [None, "y", None, "x"],
+    [None, None, "y", "x"],
+])
+def test_plot_dataset(benchmark, axes, large_visp_dataset):
+    @benchmark
+    def plot_and_save_fig(ds=large_visp_dataset, axes=axes):
+        ds.plot(plot_axes=axes)
+        plt.savefig("tmpplot")
+        plt.close()
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 83b13da95..cea47f307 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ tests = [
   "pytest-mpl",
   "pytest-httpserver",
   "pytest-filter-subpackage",
+  "pytest-benchmark",
   "hypothesis",
   "tox",
   "pydot",
diff --git a/pytest.ini b/pytest.ini
index 5b440f409..732d176ea 100644
--- a/pytest.ini
+++ b/pytest.ini
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ addopts = --doctest-rst  -p no:unraisableexception -p no:threadexception
 markers =
     online: marks this test function as needing online connectivity.
     figure: marks this test function as using hash-based Matplotlib figure verification. This mark is not meant to be directly applied, but is instead automatically applied when a test function uses the @sunpy.tests.helpers.figure_test decorator.
+    benchmark: marks this test as a benchmark
 # Disable internet access for tests not marked remote_data
 remote_data_strict = True
 asdf_schema_root = dkist/io/asdf/resources/
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index a05a7de74..d66ef2836 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ envlist =
     py310-oldestdeps
     build_docs{,-notebooks}
     codestyle
+    benchmarks
 
 [testenv]
 pypi_filter = https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sunpy/sunpy/main/.test_package_pins.txt
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ set_env =
     COLUMNS = 180
     devdeps: PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL = https://pypi.anaconda.org/astropy/simple https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple
     # Define the base test command here to allow us to add more flags for each tox factor
-    PYTEST_COMMAND = pytest -vvv -r fEs --pyargs dkist --cov-report=xml --cov=dkist --cov-config={toxinidir}/.coveragerc {toxinidir}/docs
+    PYTEST_COMMAND = pytest -vvv -r fEs --pyargs dkist --cov-report=xml --cov=dkist --cov-config={toxinidir}/.coveragerc {toxinidir}/docs --benchmark-skip
 deps =
     # For packages which publish nightly wheels this will pull the latest nightly
     devdeps: astropy>=0.0.dev0
@@ -89,3 +90,8 @@ commands =
     !notebooks: sphinx-build -j 1 --color -W --keep-going -b html -d _build/.doctrees . _build/html -D nb_execution_mode=off {posargs}
     notebooks: sphinx-build -j 1 --color -W --keep-going -b html -d _build/.doctrees . _build/html {posargs}
     python -c 'import pathlib; print("Documentation available under file://\{0\}".format(pathlib.Path(r"{toxinidir}") / "docs" / "_build" / "index.html"))'
+
+[testenv:benchmarks]
+description = Run benchmarks on PR and compare against main to ensure there are no performance regressions
+allowlist_externals=git
+commands = {env:PYTEST_COMMAND} -m benchmark --benchmark-autosave