diff --git a/benchmarks/MANIFEST b/benchmarks/MANIFEST
index 13c0666..b218305 100644
--- a/benchmarks/MANIFEST
+++ b/benchmarks/MANIFEST
@@ -24,5 +24,4 @@ flaskblogging
 kinto
 
 [group all]
--mypyc
 -json
diff --git a/benchmarks/bm_mypy/bm_mypyc.toml b/benchmarks/bm_mypy/bm_mypyc.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index ca894a6..0000000
--- a/benchmarks/bm_mypy/bm_mypyc.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-[project]
-name = "bm_mypyc"
-dependencies = [
-    "mypy",
-]
-dynamic = ["version"]
-
-[tool.pyperformance]
-extra_opts = ["--loops", "50"]
diff --git a/benchmarks/bm_mypy/requirements.txt b/benchmarks/bm_mypy/requirements.txt
index f23280a..8fc814c 100644
--- a/benchmarks/bm_mypy/requirements.txt
+++ b/benchmarks/bm_mypy/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-mypy==0.790
+mypy==0.961
 mypy-extensions==0.4.3
-typed-ast==1.4.1
-typing-extensions==3.7.4.3
+typed-ast==1.5.4
+typing-extensions==4.2.0
diff --git a/benchmarks/bm_mypy/run_benchmark.py b/benchmarks/bm_mypy/run_benchmark.py
index 67e8833..d64aa74 100644
--- a/benchmarks/bm_mypy/run_benchmark.py
+++ b/benchmarks/bm_mypy/run_benchmark.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def _bench_mypy(loops=20, *, legacy=False):
             # so "elapsed" covers more than just how long main() takes.
             t0 = pyperf.perf_counter()
             try:
-                main(None, devnull, devnull, TARGETS)
+                main(None, devnull, devnull, TARGETS, clean_exit=True)
             except SystemExit:
                 pass
             t1 = pyperf.perf_counter()