diff --git a/.github/workflows/bench.yml b/.github/workflows/bench.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..66831cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/bench.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Run performance benchmarks
+name: Benchmarks
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: ["main"]
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, reopened, synchronize]
+    branches: ["main"]
+
+env:
+  CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
+
+jobs:
+  rust-bench:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    container:
+      image: ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-small-3.11.5
+      options: --privileged
+    permissions:
+      contents: read # required for actions/checkout
+      id-token: write # required for OIDC authentication with CodSpeed
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Install dev dependencies and setup git
+        run: |
+          apt update
+          apt install -y build-essential cmake git libclang-dev pkg-config
+          git config --global --add safe.directory $GITHUB_WORKSPACE
+
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Download and extract files
+        run: |
+          gdal raster convert --co COMPRESS=LZW --co TILED=YES --co PREDICTOR=2 https://sentinel-cogs.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/sentinel-s2-l2a-cogs/12/S/UF/2022/6/S2B_12SUF_20220609_0_L2A/TCI.tif benches/TCI_lzw.tif
+          ls -lh benches/
+
+      - name: Setup rust toolchain, cache and cargo-codspeed binary
+        uses: moonrepo/setup-rust@v1
+        with:
+          channel: stable
+          cache: false
+          cache-target: release
+          bins: cargo-codspeed
+
+      - name: Build the benchmark target(s)
+        run: cargo codspeed build
+
+      - name: Run the benchmarks
+        uses: CodSpeedHQ/action@v4
+        with:
+          mode: simulation
+          run: cargo codspeed run
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3c58d05..12e8135 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ tokio = { version = "1.43.0", optional = true, default-features = false, feature
 weezl = "0.1.0"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
+criterion = { package = "codspeed-criterion-compat", version = "4.1.0" }
 object_store = { version = "0.12", features = ["http"] }
+rayon = "1.11.0"
 tiff = "0.9.1"
 tokio = { version = "1.9", features = [
     "macros",
@@ -42,3 +44,7 @@ reqwest = ["dep:reqwest"]
 object_store = ["dep:object_store"]
 
 [package.metadata.cargo-all-features]
+
+[[bench]]
+name = "read_tiff"
+harness = false
diff --git a/benches/read_tiff.rs b/benches/read_tiff.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fdcca5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benches/read_tiff.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+/// Benchmarks on reading a GeoTIFF
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+use async_tiff::decoder::DecoderRegistry;
+use async_tiff::error::{AsyncTiffError, AsyncTiffResult};
+use async_tiff::metadata::{PrefetchBuffer, TiffMetadataReader};
+use async_tiff::reader::ObjectReader;
+use async_tiff::{ImageFileDirectory, Tile};
+use criterion::{criterion_group, criterion_main, Criterion, Throughput};
+use object_store::path::Path;
+use object_store::{parse_url, ObjectStore};
+use rayon::iter::{IntoParallelIterator, ParallelIterator};
+use rayon::ThreadPoolBuilder;
+use reqwest::Url;
+use tokio::runtime;
+
+fn read_tiff(fpath: &str) -> AsyncTiffResult<()> {
+    let abs_path: PathBuf = std::path::Path::new(fpath).canonicalize()?;
+    let tif_url: Url = Url::from_file_path(abs_path).expect("Failed to parse url: {abs_path}");
+    let (store, path): (Box<dyn ObjectStore>, Path) = parse_url(&tif_url)?;
+
+    let reader = ObjectReader::new(Arc::new(store), path);
+    let decoder_registry = DecoderRegistry::default();
+
+    // Initialize async runtime
+    let runtime = runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
+        .enable_all()
+        .build()?;
+
+    // Get list of tiles in TIFF file stream (using tokio async runtime)
+    let tiles: Vec<Tile> = runtime
+        .block_on(async {
+            // Read metadata header
+            let prefetch_reader = PrefetchBuffer::new(reader.clone(), 32 * 1024).await?;
+            let mut metadata_reader = TiffMetadataReader::try_open(&prefetch_reader).await?;
+
+            // Read Image File Directories
+            let ifds: Vec<ImageFileDirectory> =
+                metadata_reader.read_all_ifds(&prefetch_reader).await?;
+
+            assert_eq!(ifds.len(), 1); // should have only 1 IFD
+            let ifd: &ImageFileDirectory = ifds.first().ok_or(AsyncTiffError::General(
+                "unable to read first IFD".to_string(),
+            ))?;
+
+            let (x_count, y_count) = ifd.tile_count().ok_or(AsyncTiffError::General(
+                "unable to get IFD count".to_string(),
+            ))?;
+            // dbg!(x_count, y_count); // 43 * 43 = 1849
+
+            // Get cartesian product of x and y tile ids
+            let x_ids: Vec<usize> = (0..x_count)
+                .flat_map(|i| (0..y_count).map(move |_j| i))
+                .collect();
+            let y_ids: Vec<usize> = (0..x_count).flat_map(|_i| 0..y_count).collect();
+
+            let tiles: Vec<Tile> = ifd.fetch_tiles(&x_ids, &y_ids, &reader).await?;
+            assert_eq!(tiles.len(), 1849);
+
+            Ok::<Vec<Tile>, AsyncTiffError>(tiles)
+        })
+        .unwrap();
+
+    // Do actual decoding of TIFF tile data (multi-threaded using rayon)
+    let pool = ThreadPoolBuilder::new()
+        .num_threads(4)
+        .build()
+        .map_err(|err| AsyncTiffError::External(Box::new(err)))?;
+
+    let tile_bytes: Vec<u8> = pool.install(|| {
+        tiles
+            .into_par_iter()
+            .flat_map_iter(|tile| tile.decode(&decoder_registry).unwrap())
+            .collect()
+    });
+    assert_eq!(tile_bytes.len(), 363528192); // should be 361681200, why not?
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+pub fn criterion_benchmark(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    let mut group = c.benchmark_group("read_tiff");
+
+    let fsize: u64 = std::fs::metadata("benches/TCI_lzw.tif").unwrap().len();
+    group.throughput(Throughput::BytesDecimal(fsize)); // 55MB filesize
+
+    // CPU decoding using async-tiff
+    group.sample_size(30);
+    group.bench_function("async-tiff", move |b| {
+        b.iter(|| read_tiff("benches/TCI_lzw.tif"))
+    });
+    group.finish();
+}
+
+criterion_group!(benches, criterion_benchmark);
+criterion_main!(benches);