diff --git a/native/shuffle/Cargo.toml b/native/shuffle/Cargo.toml
index 71be932422c..9504834ef4a 100644
--- a/native/shuffle/Cargo.toml
+++ b/native/shuffle/Cargo.toml
@@ -78,3 +78,7 @@ harness = false
 [[bench]]
 name = "row_columnar"
 harness = false
+
+[[bench]]
+name = "shuffle_reader"
+harness = false
diff --git a/native/shuffle/benches/shuffle_reader.rs b/native/shuffle/benches/shuffle_reader.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..81efcda7aa1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/native/shuffle/benches/shuffle_reader.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+//! Shuffle read benchmarks: the per-block schema parse measured against a full block decode,
+//! across column counts and rows per block.
+
+use arrow::array::{Int64Array, RecordBatch, StringArray};
+use arrow::datatypes::{DataType, Field, Schema, SchemaRef};
+use arrow::ipc::reader::StreamReader;
+use arrow::ipc::writer::IpcWriteContext;
+use criterion::{criterion_group, criterion_main, BenchmarkId, Criterion};
+use datafusion::physical_plan::metrics::Time;
+use datafusion_comet_shuffle::{read_ipc_compressed, CompressionCodec, ShuffleBlockWriter};
+use std::hint::black_box;
+use std::io::Cursor;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+/// 8-byte compressed length plus 8-byte field count; `read_ipc_compressed` expects what follows.
+const BLOCK_HEADER_LEN: usize = 16;
+
+/// Alternating `Int64` and `Utf8`.
+fn schema_of(num_columns: usize) -> SchemaRef {
+    Arc::new(Schema::new(
+        (0..num_columns)
+            .map(|i| {
+                let data_type = if i % 2 == 0 {
+                    DataType::Int64
+                } else {
+                    DataType::Utf8
+                };
+                Field::new(format!("column_{i}"), data_type, false)
+            })
+            .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
+    ))
+}
+
+fn batch_of(num_columns: usize, num_rows: usize) -> RecordBatch {
+    let schema = schema_of(num_columns);
+    let columns = (0..num_columns)
+        .map(|i| {
+            if i % 2 == 0 {
+                Arc::new(
+                    (0..num_rows)
+                        .map(|r| Some(r as i64))
+                        .collect::<Int64Array>(),
+                ) as arrow::array::ArrayRef
+            } else {
+                Arc::new(
+                    (0..num_rows)
+                        .map(|r| Some(format!("value_{r}")))
+                        .collect::<StringArray>(),
+                ) as arrow::array::ArrayRef
+            }
+        })
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    RecordBatch::try_new(schema, columns).unwrap()
+}
+
+/// One encoded block, with the 16-byte Comet header stripped.
+fn encode_block(batch: &RecordBatch, codec: CompressionCodec) -> Vec<u8> {
+    let writer = ShuffleBlockWriter::try_new(batch.schema().as_ref(), codec).unwrap();
+    let mut context = IpcWriteContext::default();
+    let mut buffer = Vec::new();
+    let mut cursor = Cursor::new(&mut buffer);
+    writer
+        .write_batch(batch, &mut cursor, &mut context, &Time::default())
+        .unwrap();
+    buffer[BLOCK_HEADER_LEN..].to_vec()
+}
+
+fn criterion_benchmark(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    let mut group = c.benchmark_group("shuffle_reader");
+
+    // rows per block shrink as partition count rises, so the small cases stand in for wide shuffles
+    for num_columns in [5usize, 50] {
+        for num_rows in [64usize, 512, 8192] {
+            let batch = batch_of(num_columns, num_rows);
+            let uncompressed = encode_block(&batch, CompressionCodec::None);
+
+            let id = format!("{num_columns}col_{num_rows}row");
+
+            // full decode: schema parse plus record batch
+            group.bench_with_input(
+                BenchmarkId::new("decode_block", &id),
+                &uncompressed,
+                |b, block| b.iter(|| black_box(read_ipc_compressed(black_box(block)).unwrap())),
+            );
+
+            // schema parse alone: `try_new` stops before the record batch. Skips the codec tag.
+            group.bench_with_input(
+                BenchmarkId::new("parse_schema_only", &id),
+                &uncompressed,
+                |b, block| {
+                    b.iter(|| {
+                        let mut ipc = &black_box(block)[4..];
+                        black_box(StreamReader::try_new(&mut ipc, None).unwrap().schema())
+                    })
+                },
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    group.finish();
+}
+
+criterion_group!(benches, criterion_benchmark);
+criterion_main!(benches);