diff --git a/benchmarks/profile_all_examples.py b/benchmarks/profile_all_examples.py
index 337009ac58d72ad2a53b01b53187619f0fd9ac4f..53b40bfc7acfc9c56bc2ced9c8d2c4a968867ee2 100644
--- a/benchmarks/profile_all_examples.py
+++ b/benchmarks/profile_all_examples.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ for entry in [entry for entry in importlib_resources.contents('examples') if
               not pkg_resources.resource_isdir('examples', entry)
               and entry.endswith(".py")
               and '__init__' not in entry
+              and 'demo.py' not in entry
               and 'DELETE' not in entry
               ]:
     profile('examples', entry)
diff --git a/benchmarks/run_all_examples.py b/benchmarks/run_all_examples.py
index 99e240ad30051fda218a8b26b7d99a7129ede410..91bbc048e94d329878601d2b7d751b2d37fbf3a0 100644
--- a/benchmarks/run_all_examples.py
+++ b/benchmarks/run_all_examples.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ for entry in [entry for entry in importlib_resources.contents('examples') if
               not pkg_resources.resource_isdir('examples', entry)
               and entry.endswith(".py")
               and '__init__' not in entry
+              and 'demo.py' not in entry
               and 'DELETE' not in entry
               ]:
     with path('examples', entry) as file_in: