diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8757d50..018ae42 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -24,18 +24,20 @@ $(benchstat):
 
 # This compares segmentio/encoding/json to the standard golang encoding/json;
 # for more in-depth benchmarks, see the `benchmarks` directory.
-bench-simple: $(benchstat)
-	@go test -v -run '^$$' -bench /codeResponse -benchmem -benchtime 3s -cpu 1 ./json -package encoding/json -count 8 | tee /tmp/encoding-json.txt
-	@go test -v -run '^$$' -bench /codeResponse -benchmem -benchtime 3s -cpu 1 ./json -count 8 | tee /tmp/segmentio-encoding-json.txt
-	benchstat /tmp/encoding-json.txt /tmp/segmentio-encoding-json.txt
+bench-simple: $(benchcmp)
+	@go test -v -run '^$$' -bench '(Marshal|Unmarshal)$$/codeResponse' -benchmem -cpu 1 -count 5 ./json -package encoding/json | tee encoding-json.txt
+	@go test -v -run '^$$' -bench '(Marshal|Unmarshal)$$/codeResponse' -benchmem -cpu 1 -count 5 ./json -package github.com/json-iterator/go | tee json-iterator.txt
+	@go test -v -run '^$$' -bench '(Marshal|Unmarshal)$$/codeResponse' -benchmem -cpu 1 -count 5 ./json | tee segmentio-encoding-json.txt
+	benchstat encoding-json.txt segmentio-encoding-json.txt
+	benchstat json-iterator.txt segmentio-encoding-json.txt
 
 bench-master: $(benchstat)
 	git stash
 	git checkout master
-	@go test -v -run '^$$' -bench /codeResponse -benchmem -benchtime 3s -cpu 1 ./json -count 8 | tee /tmp/segmentio-encoding-json-master.txt
+	@go test -v -run '^$$' -bench /codeResponse -benchmem -cpu 1 ./json -count 5 | tee /tmp/segmentio-encoding-json-master.txt
 	git checkout -
 	git stash pop
-	@go test -v -run '^$$' -bench /codeResponse -benchmem -benchtime 3s -cpu 1 ./json -count 8 | tee /tmp/segmentio-encoding-json.txt
+	@go test -v -run '^$$' -bench /codeResponse -benchmem -cpu 1 ./json -count 5 | tee /tmp/segmentio-encoding-json.txt
 	benchstat /tmp/segmentio-encoding-json-master.txt /tmp/segmentio-encoding-json.txt
 
 update-golang-test: $(golang.test.files)
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 57a5819..240fe89 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 module github.com/segmentio/encoding
 
 go 1.14
+
+require github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.10
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index e69de29..836ef80 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.0/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
+github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
+github.com/google/gofuzz v1.0.0/go.mod h1:dBl0BpW6vV/+mYPU4Po3pmUjxk6FQPldtuIdl/M65Eg=
+github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.8 h1:QiWkFLKq0T7mpzwOTu6BzNDbfTE8OLrYhVKYMLF46Ok=
+github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.8/go.mod h1:KdQUCv79m/52Kvf8AW2vK1V8akMuk1QjK/uOdHXbAo4=
+github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.10 h1:Kz6Cvnvv2wGdaG/V8yMvfkmNiXq9Ya2KUv4rouJJr68=
+github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.10/go.mod h1:KdQUCv79m/52Kvf8AW2vK1V8akMuk1QjK/uOdHXbAo4=
+github.com/modern-go/concurrent v0.0.0-20180228061459-e0a39a4cb421 h1:ZqeYNhU3OHLH3mGKHDcjJRFFRrJa6eAM5H+CtDdOsPc=
+github.com/modern-go/concurrent v0.0.0-20180228061459-e0a39a4cb421/go.mod h1:6dJC0mAP4ikYIbvyc7fijjWJddQyLn8Ig3JB5CqoB9Q=
+github.com/modern-go/reflect2 v0.0.0-20180701023420-4b7aa43c6742 h1:Esafd1046DLDQ0W1YjYsBW+p8U2u7vzgW2SQVmlNazg=
+github.com/modern-go/reflect2 v0.0.0-20180701023420-4b7aa43c6742/go.mod h1:bx2lNnkwVCuqBIxFjflWJWanXIb3RllmbCylyMrvgv0=
+github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0/go.mod h1:iKH77koFhYxTK1pcRnkKkqfTogsbg7gZNVY4sRDYZ/4=
+github.com/stretchr/objx v0.1.0/go.mod h1:HFkY916IF+rwdDfMAkV7OtwuqBVzrE8GR6GFx+wExME=
+github.com/stretchr/testify v1.3.0/go.mod h1:M5WIy9Dh21IEIfnGCwXGc5bZfKNJtfHm1UVUgZn+9EI=
diff --git a/json/json_test.go b/json/json_test.go
index 5f3f8a2..f28ba20 100644
--- a/json/json_test.go
+++ b/json/json_test.go
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
+
+	jsoniter "github.com/json-iterator/go"
 )
 
 // The encoding/json package does not export the msg field of json.SyntaxError,
@@ -56,6 +58,19 @@ func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
 
 		unmarshal = json.Unmarshal
 
+	case "github.com/json-iterator/go":
+		buf := &buffer{}
+		enc := jsoniter.NewEncoder(buf)
+		enc.SetEscapeHTML(escapeHTML)
+
+		marshal = func(b []byte, v interface{}) ([]byte, error) {
+			buf.data = b
+			err := enc.Encode(v)
+			return buf.data, err
+		}
+
+		unmarshal = jsoniter.Unmarshal
+
 	default:
 		flags := AppendFlags(0)
 		if escapeHTML {