diff --git a/pkg/eventfilter/benchmarks/attributes_benchmark_test.go b/pkg/eventfilter/benchmarks/attributes_benchmark_test.go
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+/*
+Copyright 2020 The Knative Authors
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package benchmarks
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	cetest "github.com/cloudevents/sdk-go/v2/test"
+
+	"knative.dev/eventing/pkg/eventfilter"
+	"knative.dev/eventing/pkg/eventfilter/attributes"
+)
+
+func BenchmarkAttributesFilter(b *testing.B) {
+	event := cetest.FullEvent()
+
+	RunFilterBenchmarks(b,
+		func(i interface{}) eventfilter.Filter {
+			return attributes.NewAttributesFilter(i.(map[string]string))
+		},
+		FilterBenchmark{
+			name:  "Pass with exact match of id",
+			arg:   map[string]string{"id": event.ID()},
+			event: event,
+		},
+		FilterBenchmark{
+			// We don't test time because the exact match on the string apparently doesn't work well,
+			// which might cause the filter to fail.
+			name: "Pass with exact match of all context attributes (except time)",
+			arg: map[string]string{
+				"id":              event.ID(),
+				"source":          event.Source(),
+				"type":            event.Type(),
+				"dataschema":      event.DataSchema(),
+				"datacontenttype": event.DataContentType(),
+				"subject":         event.Subject(),
+			},
+			event: event,
+		},
+		FilterBenchmark{
+			name: "No pass with exact match of id and source",
+			arg: map[string]string{
+				"id":     "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm",
+				"source": "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm",
+			},
+			event: event,
+		},
+	)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/eventfilter/benchmarks/common_benchmark_test.go b/pkg/eventfilter/benchmarks/common_benchmark_test.go
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+++ b/pkg/eventfilter/benchmarks/common_benchmark_test.go
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+/*
+Copyright 2020 The Knative Authors
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package benchmarks
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"testing"
+
+	cloudevents "github.com/cloudevents/sdk-go/v2"
+
+	"knative.dev/eventing/pkg/eventfilter"
+)
+
+type FilterBenchmark struct {
+	name  string
+	arg   interface{}
+	event cloudevents.Event
+}
+
+// Avoid DCE
+var Filter eventfilter.Filter
+var Result eventfilter.FilterResult
+
+// RunFilterBenchmarks executes 2 benchmark runs for each of the provided bench cases:
+// 1. "Creation: ..." benchmark measures the time/mem to create the filter, given the filter constructor and the argument
+// 2. "Run: ..." benchmark measures the time/mem to execute the filter, given a pre-built filter instance and the provided event
+func RunFilterBenchmarks(b *testing.B, filterCtor func(interface{}) eventfilter.Filter, filterBenchmarks ...FilterBenchmark) {
+	for _, fb := range filterBenchmarks {
+		b.Run("Creation: "+fb.name, func(b *testing.B) {
+			for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+				Filter = filterCtor(fb.arg)
+			}
+		})
+		// Filter to use for the run
+		f := filterCtor(fb.arg)
+		b.Run("Run: "+fb.name, func(b *testing.B) {
+			for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+				Result = f.Filter(context.TODO(), fb.event)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}