diff --git a/benchmarks/decoders/benchmark_audio_decoders.py b/benchmarks/decoders/benchmark_audio_decoders.py
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+import subprocess
+
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
+from datetime import timedelta
+from pathlib import Path
+from time import perf_counter_ns
+
+import torch
+import torchaudio
+from torch import Tensor
+from torchaudio.io import StreamReader
+from torchcodec.decoders._audio_decoder import AudioDecoder
+
+DEFAULT_NUM_EXP = 30
+
+
+def bench(f, *args, num_exp=DEFAULT_NUM_EXP, warmup=1, **kwargs) -> Tensor:
+
+    for _ in range(warmup):
+        f(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    times = []
+    for _ in range(num_exp):
+        start = perf_counter_ns()
+        f(*args, **kwargs)
+        end = perf_counter_ns()
+        times.append(end - start)
+    return torch.tensor(times).float()
+
+
+def report_stats(times: Tensor, unit: str = "ms", prefix: str = "") -> float:
+    mul = {
+        "ns": 1,
+        "µs": 1e-3,
+        "ms": 1e-6,
+        "s": 1e-9,
+    }[unit]
+    times = times * mul
+    std = times.std().item()
+    med = times.median().item()
+    mean = times.mean().item()
+    min = times.min().item()
+    max = times.max().item()
+    print(
+        f"{prefix:<40} {med = :.2f}, {mean = :.2f} +- {std:.2f}, {min = :.2f}, {max = :.2f} - in {unit}"
+    )
+
+
+def get_duration(path: Path) -> str:
+    try:
+        result = subprocess.run(
+            [
+                "ffprobe",
+                "-v",
+                "error",
+                "-show_entries",
+                "format=duration",
+                "-of",
+                "default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1",
+                str(path),
+            ],
+            stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+            stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
+            text=True,
+        )
+
+        # Remove microseconds
+        return str(timedelta(seconds=float(result.stdout.strip()))).split(".")[0]
+    except Exception:
+        return "?"
+
+
+def decode_with_torchcodec(path: Path) -> None:
+    AudioDecoder(path).get_samples_played_in_range(start_seconds=0, stop_seconds=None)
+
+
+def decode_with_torchaudio_StreamReader(path: Path) -> None:
+    reader = StreamReader(path)
+    reader.add_audio_stream(frames_per_chunk=1024)
+    for _ in reader.stream():
+        pass
+
+
+def decode_with_torchaudio_load(path: Path, backend: str) -> None:
+    torchaudio.load(str(path), backend=backend)
+
+
+parser = ArgumentParser()
+parser.add_argument("--path", type=str, help="path to file", required=True)
+parser.add_argument(
+    "--num-exp",
+    type=int,
+    default=DEFAULT_NUM_EXP,
+    help="number of runs to average over",
+)
+
+args = parser.parse_args()
+path = Path(args.path)
+
+
+print(
+    f"Benchmarking {path.name}, duration: {get_duration(path)}, averaging over {args.num_exp} runs:"
+)
+
+times = bench(decode_with_torchcodec, path, num_exp=args.num_exp)
+report_stats(times, prefix="torchcodec.AudioDecoder")
+
+times = bench(decode_with_torchaudio_load, path, backend="ffmpeg", num_exp=args.num_exp)
+report_stats(times, prefix="torchaudio.load(backend='ffmpeg')")
+
+prefix = "torchaudio.load(backend='sox')"
+try:
+    times = bench(
+        decode_with_torchaudio_load, path, backend="sox", num_exp=args.num_exp
+    )
+    report_stats(times, prefix=prefix)
+except RuntimeError:
+    print(f"{prefix:<40} Not supported")
+
+times = bench(decode_with_torchaudio_StreamReader, path, num_exp=args.num_exp)
+report_stats(times, prefix="torchaudio.StreamReader")