diff --git a/benchmarks/benchmarks/external_cmds.fish b/benchmarks/benchmarks/external_cmds.fish
index 12048030c..ecac75abd 100644
--- a/benchmarks/benchmarks/external_cmds.fish
+++ b/benchmarks/benchmarks/external_cmds.fish
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-for i in (seq 2000)
+for i in (seq 1000)
     command true
 end
diff --git a/benchmarks/benchmarks/glob.fish b/benchmarks/benchmarks/glob.fish
index 959b7aaa3..0bf2e715a 100644
--- a/benchmarks/benchmarks/glob.fish
+++ b/benchmarks/benchmarks/glob.fish
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 # so it's best to build two fishes, check out one version of the repo,
 # and then run this script with both.
 set -l dir (dirname (status current-filename))
-for i in (seq 1 100)
+for i in (seq 1 10)
     echo $dir/../../**
 end
diff --git a/benchmarks/driver.sh b/benchmarks/driver.sh
index 1c155ae0c..6ccf3e0bc 100755
--- a/benchmarks/driver.sh
+++ b/benchmarks/driver.sh
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ for benchmark in "$BENCHMARKS_DIR"/*; do
     fi
 
     if command -v hyperfine >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-        cmd1="$(quote "${FISH_PATH}") $(quote "$benchmark") > /dev/null"
+        cmd1="$(quote "${FISH_PATH}") --no-config $(quote "$benchmark")"
         if [ -n "$FISH2_PATH" ]; then
-            cmd2="$(quote "${FISH2_PATH}") $(quote "$benchmark") > /dev/null"
+            cmd2="$(quote "${FISH2_PATH}") --no-config $(quote "$benchmark")"
             hyperfine "$cmd1" "$cmd2"
         else
             hyperfine "$cmd1"