diff --git a/polkadot/cli/Cargo.toml b/polkadot/cli/Cargo.toml
index 1e770cd8715b3aaa852518fded6fef4f29396107..1be1b63c0cfb247149e9206b8177577fb83a6848 100644
--- a/polkadot/cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/polkadot/cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -56,7 +56,11 @@ cli = [
 	"polkadot-client",
 	"polkadot-node-core-pvf",
 ]
-runtime-benchmarks = ["service/runtime-benchmarks", "polkadot-node-metrics/runtime-benchmarks"]
+runtime-benchmarks = [
+	"service/runtime-benchmarks",
+	"polkadot-node-metrics/runtime-benchmarks",
+	"polkadot-performance-test?/runtime-benchmarks"
+]
 trie-memory-tracker = ["sp-trie/memory-tracker"]
 full-node = ["service/full-node"]
 try-runtime = ["service/try-runtime"]
diff --git a/polkadot/node/test/performance-test/Cargo.toml b/polkadot/node/test/performance-test/Cargo.toml
index 783f5194a0f5f92df08a5870ad1adfbef54b04c4..583b80e3c2f4e7624deed46b4d275e1d8c82cd01 100644
--- a/polkadot/node/test/performance-test/Cargo.toml
+++ b/polkadot/node/test/performance-test/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@ kusama-runtime = { path = "../../../runtime/kusama" }
 [[bin]]
 name = "gen-ref-constants"
 path = "src/gen_ref_constants.rs"
+
+[features]
+runtime-benchmarks = ["kusama-runtime/runtime-benchmarks"]