diff --git a/.github/workflows/workflow.yaml b/.github/workflows/workflow.yaml
index 70395c07de0..bff76d21b68 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/workflow.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/workflow.yaml
@@ -317,6 +317,84 @@ jobs:
             done
           done
 
+  benchmark:
+    name: "Benchmark"
+    if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      
+      - name: Get all releases
+        uses: octokit/request-action@v2.x
+        id: get-releases
+        with:
+          route: GET /repos/${{ github.repository }}/releases
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      
+      - name: Create release data json
+        run: |
+          cat <<EOF > semver.json
+          ${{ steps.get-releases.outputs.data }}
+          EOF
+          arr=( $(jq -r '.[] | select(.prerelease == false and .draft == false) | .tag_name' semver.json) )
+          echo "${arr[@]}"
+
+      - name: Get the latest release 
+        id: get-latest-semver-release
+        run: |
+          npm install --global semver
+          echo "release=v3.10.0" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          version=( $(semver "${arr[@]}") )
+          rm semver.json
+          
+      - name: Download release benchmark file
+        uses: robinraju/release-downloader@v1.6
+        id: get-latest-benchmark
+        continue-on-error: true
+        with: 
+          tag: ${{ steps.get-latest-semver-release.outputs.release }}
+          fileName: "release_benchmarks.txt"
+
+      - name: Run benchmarks
+        run: |
+          curl -L -O "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder/releases/download/v${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION}/kubebuilder_${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz" &&\
+            tar -zxvf kubebuilder_${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz &&\
+            sudo mv kubebuilder_${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION}_linux_amd64 /usr/local/kubebuilder
+          make benchmark-test BENCHMARK_FILE_NAME=pr_benchmarks.txt
+        if: ${{ steps.get-latest-benchmark.outcome == 'success' }}
+        env:
+          KUBEBUILDER_VERSION: 2.3.1
+
+      - name: Compare benchmarks
+        id: get-comment-body
+        if: ${{ steps.get-latest-benchmark.outcome == 'success' }}
+        run: |
+          export GOPATH="$HOME/go"
+          PATH="$GOPATH/bin:$PATH"
+          go install golang.org/x/perf/cmd/benchstat@latest
+          benchstat release_benchmarks.txt pr_benchmarks.txt > benchstat.txt
+          delimiter=$(openssl rand -hex 8)
+          echo 'msg<<$delimiter' >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          cat benchstat.txt >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo '$delimiter' >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+        
+      - name: Create commit comment
+        if: ${{ steps.get-latest-benchmark.outcome == 'success' }}
+        uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-comment@v2
+        with:
+          issue-number: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+          body: |
+            This PR compares its performance to the latest released version. If it performs significantly lower, consider optimizing your changes to improve the performance.
+            ```  
+            ${{ steps.get-comment-body.outputs.msg }}
+            ```
+
   pre-release:
     name: "Pre Release"
     runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
@@ -458,6 +536,16 @@ jobs:
         env:
           PLATFORMS: "linux-amd64 linux-arm64 darwin-amd64 darwin-arm64"
 
+      - name: Run benchmarks
+        run: |
+          curl -L -O "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder/releases/download/v${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION}/kubebuilder_${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz" &&\
+            tar -zxvf kubebuilder_${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz &&\
+            sudo mv kubebuilder_${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION}_linux_amd64 /usr/local/kubebuilder
+          make benchmark-test BENCHMARK_FILE_NAME=release_benchmarks.txt
+          mv benchmarks.txt _dist/release_benchmarks.txt
+        env:
+          KUBEBUILDER_VERSION: 2.3.1
+
       - name: Create GitHub release
         uses: "marvinpinto/action-automatic-releases@v1.2.1"
         with:
@@ -466,6 +554,7 @@ jobs:
           files: |
             _dist/sha256sums.txt
             _dist/*.tar.gz
+            _dist/release_benchmarks.txt
 
       - name: Publish Helm chart
         uses: stefanprodan/helm-gh-pages@v1.7.0
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e6b06c2761c..3b690dcba51 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION := v1.45.2
 # Detects the location of the user golangci-lint cache.
 GOLANGCI_LINT_CACHE := $(shell pwd)/.tmp/golangci-lint
 
+BENCHMARK_FILE_NAME ?= benchmarks.txt
+
 ROOT_DIR := $(shell dirname $(realpath $(firstword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
 BIN_DIR := $(abspath $(ROOT_DIR)/bin)
 
@@ -103,6 +105,10 @@ all: lint test manager
 native-test:
 	GO111MODULE=on go test -mod vendor ./pkg/... ./apis/... -race -bench . -coverprofile cover.out
 
+.PHONY: benchmark-test
+benchmark-test:
+	go test ./pkg/... -bench . -run="^#" -count 5 > ${BENCHMARK_FILE_NAME}
+
 # Hook to run docker tests
 .PHONY: test
 test: __test-image