diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 759b3b25d9eb..c0e0943b630a 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -466,9 +466,6 @@ jobs:
           command: yarn upload-bench $(yarn get-template << pipeline.parameters.workflow >> bench)
       - report-workflow-on-failure:
           template: $(yarn get-template << pipeline.parameters.workflow >> bench)
-      - store_artifacts: # this is where playwright puts more complex stuff
-          path: code/bench-results/
-          destination: bench-results
 
 workflows:
   ci:
diff --git a/scripts/upload-bench.ts b/scripts/upload-bench.ts
index 668ab8a9e41a..1b0d570ee821 100644
--- a/scripts/upload-bench.ts
+++ b/scripts/upload-bench.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-import { copy } from 'fs-extra';
 import { join } from 'path';
 import { BigQuery } from '@google-cloud/bigquery';
 
 import type { BenchResults } from './bench/types';
 import { loadBench } from './bench/utils';
-import { SANDBOX_DIRECTORY, CODE_DIRECTORY } from './utils/constants';
+import { SANDBOX_DIRECTORY } from './utils/constants';
 import { execaCommand } from './utils/exec';
 
 const templateKey = process.argv[2];
@@ -71,12 +70,6 @@ const uploadBench = async () => {
   const appTable = dataset.table('bench2');
 
   await appTable.insert([row]);
-
-  // for CI artifacts
-  await copy(
-    `${templateSandboxDir}/bench.json`,
-    `${CODE_DIRECTORY}/bench-results/${templateSandboxDir}.json`
-  );
 };
 
 uploadBench()