diff --git a/.pyup.yml b/.pyup.yml
index 3f82b4bde1..fc45638428 100644
--- a/.pyup.yml
+++ b/.pyup.yml
@@ -5,3 +5,6 @@ requirements:
   - requirements/test.txt
       updates: all
       pin: True
+  - requirements/benchmark.txt
+      updates: all
+      pin: True
diff --git a/requirements/benchmark.txt b/requirements/benchmark.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5b95aa74a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements/benchmark.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+appdirs==1.4.3
+attrs==16.3.0
+click==6.7
+hypothesis==3.7.0
+numpy==1.12.1
+packaging==16.8
+pyparsing==2.2.0
+scipy==0.19.0
+six==1.10.0