diff --git a/benchmark/esm/import-meta.js b/benchmark/esm/import-meta.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..fd371cf60ed6a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/esm/import-meta.js
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const path = require('path');
+const { pathToFileURL, fileURLToPath } = require('url');
+const common = require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const bench = common.createBenchmark(main, {
+  n: [1000],
+});
+
+const file = pathToFileURL(
+  path.resolve(__filename, '../../fixtures/esm-dir-file.mjs'),
+);
+async function load(array, n) {
+  for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    array[i] = await import(`${file}?i=${i}`);
+  }
+  return array;
+}
+
+function main({ n }) {
+  const array = [];
+  for (let i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
+    array.push({ dirname: '', filename: '', i: 0 });
+  }
+
+  bench.start();
+  load(array, n).then((arr) => {
+    bench.end(n);
+    assert.strictEqual(arr[n - 1].filename, fileURLToPath(file));
+  });
+}
diff --git a/benchmark/fixtures/esm-dir-file.mjs b/benchmark/fixtures/esm-dir-file.mjs
index d5dafc5c46697e..a1028d57afd56b 100644
--- a/benchmark/fixtures/esm-dir-file.mjs
+++ b/benchmark/fixtures/esm-dir-file.mjs
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-import assert from 'assert';
-assert.ok(import.meta.dirname);
-assert.ok(import.meta.filename);
+export const dirname = import.meta.dirname;
+export const filename = import.meta.filename;
diff --git a/benchmark/fixtures/load-esm-dir-file.js b/benchmark/fixtures/load-esm-dir-file.js
deleted file mode 100644
index a4115dd39e0489..00000000000000
--- a/benchmark/fixtures/load-esm-dir-file.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-(async function () {
-  for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i += 1) {
-    await import(`./esm-dir-file.mjs?i=${i}`);
-  }
-}());
diff --git a/benchmark/misc/startup.js b/benchmark/misc/startup.js
index f55be1a7902e4f..07c0701d128899 100644
--- a/benchmark/misc/startup.js
+++ b/benchmark/misc/startup.js
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ const bench = common.createBenchmark(main, {
   script: [
     'benchmark/fixtures/require-builtins',
     'test/fixtures/semicolon',
-    'benchmark/fixtures/load-esm-dir-file',
   ],
   mode: ['process', 'worker'],
   count: [30],