diff --git a/milli/benches/songs.rs b/milli/benches/songs.rs
index 0c056d93f..8ef6df3c8 100644
--- a/milli/benches/songs.rs
+++ b/milli/benches/songs.rs
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ fn bench_songs(c: &mut criterion::Criterion) {
             criterion: Some(&["desc(released-timestamp)"]),
             ..BASE_CONF
         },
+
         /* then we bench the asc and desc criterion on top of the default criterion */
         utils::Conf {
             group_name: "asc + default",
@@ -149,6 +150,24 @@ fn bench_songs(c: &mut criterion::Criterion) {
             criterion: Some(&desc_default[..]),
             ..BASE_CONF
         },
+
+        /* we bench the filters with the default request */
+        utils::Conf {
+            group_name: "basic filter: <=",
+            facet_condition: Some("released-timestamp <= 946728000"), // year 2000
+            ..BASE_CONF
+        },
+        utils::Conf {
+            group_name: "basic filter: TO",
+            facet_condition: Some("released-timestamp 946728000 TO 1262347200"), // year 2000 to 2010
+            ..BASE_CONF
+        },
+        utils::Conf {
+            group_name: "big filter",
+            facet_condition: Some("released-timestamp != 1262347200 AND (NOT (released-timestamp = 946728000)) AND (duration-float = 1 OR (duration-float 1.1 TO 1.5 AND released-timestamp > 315576000))"),
+            ..BASE_CONF
+        },
+
         /* the we bench some global / normal search with all the default criterion in the default
          * order */
         utils::Conf {
@@ -174,7 +193,10 @@ fn bench_songs(c: &mut criterion::Criterion) {
             group_name: "prefix search",
             queries: &[
                 "s", // 500k+ results
-                "a", "b", "i", "x", // only 7k results
+                "a", //
+                "b", //
+                "i", //
+                "x", // only 7k results
             ],
             ..BASE_CONF
         },
diff --git a/milli/benches/utils.rs b/milli/benches/utils.rs
index 3d91f726a..460623ab5 100644
--- a/milli/benches/utils.rs
+++ b/milli/benches/utils.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-use std::{
-    fs::{create_dir_all, remove_dir_all, File},
-    time::Duration,
-};
+use std::fs::{create_dir_all, remove_dir_all, File};
 
 use criterion::BenchmarkId;
 use heed::EnvOpenOptions;
@@ -24,7 +21,7 @@ pub struct Conf<'a> {
     pub criterion: Option<&'a [&'a str]>,
     /// the last chance to configure your database as you want
     pub configure: fn(&mut Settings),
-    pub facet_condition: Option<FacetCondition>,
+    pub facet_condition: Option<&'a str>,
     /// enable or disable the optional words on the query
     pub optional_words: bool,
 }
@@ -102,7 +99,8 @@ pub fn run_benches(c: &mut criterion::Criterion, confs: &[Conf]) {
                     let rtxn = index.read_txn().unwrap();
                     let mut search = index.search(&rtxn);
                     search.query(query).optional_words(conf.optional_words);
-                    if let Some(facet_condition) = conf.facet_condition.clone() {
+                    if let Some(facet_condition) = conf.facet_condition {
+                        let facet_condition = FacetCondition::from_str(&rtxn, &index, facet_condition).unwrap();
                         search.facet_condition(facet_condition);
                     }
                     let _ids = search.execute().unwrap();
diff --git a/milli/benches/wiki.rs b/milli/benches/wiki.rs
index d876814a9..8c15f11ca 100644
--- a/milli/benches/wiki.rs
+++ b/milli/benches/wiki.rs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ const BASE_CONF: Conf = Conf {
         "spain ",         // 7002
         "japan ",         // 10.593
         "france ",        // 17.616
-        "film ",          //  24.959
+        "film ",          // 24.959
     ],
     configure: base_conf,
     ..Conf::BASE