diff --git a/model/textparse/benchmark_test.go b/model/textparse/benchmark_test.go
index bc9c2d1db..f6d3a9559 100644
--- a/model/textparse/benchmark_test.go
+++ b/model/textparse/benchmark_test.go
@@ -86,8 +86,6 @@ func BenchmarkParse(b *testing.B) {
 		// NHCB.
 		{dataFile: "omhistogramdata.txt", parser: "omtext"},           // Measure OM parser baseline for histograms.
 		{dataFile: "omhistogramdata.txt", parser: "nhcb_over_omtext"}, // Measure NHCB over OM parser.
-		{dataFile: "omcounterdata.txt", parser: "omtext"},             // Measure OM parser baseline for counters.
-		{dataFile: "omcounterdata.txt", parser: "nhcb_over_omtext"},   // Measure NHCB over OM parser.
 	} {
 		var buf []byte
 		dataCase := bcase.dataFile
diff --git a/model/textparse/testdata/omcounterdata.txt b/model/textparse/testdata/omcounterdata.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 15459c018..000000000
--- a/model/textparse/testdata/omcounterdata.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# HELP rpc_requests Total number of RPC requests received.
-# TYPE rpc_requests counter
-rpc_requests_total{service="exponential"} 22.0
-rpc_requests_created{service="exponential"} 1.726839813016893e+09
-rpc_requests_total{service="normal"} 15.0
-rpc_requests_created{service="normal"} 1.726839813016717e+09
-rpc_requests_total{service="uniform"} 11.0
-rpc_requests_created{service="uniform"} 1.7268398130168471e+09
-# EOF