diff --git a/common/BUILD b/common/BUILD
index 645bf9a11e23..fcf314a6bc89 100644
--- a/common/BUILD
+++ b/common/BUILD
@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ cc_library(
     ],
 )
 
+cc_library(
+    name = "benchmark_main",
+    srcs = ["benchmark_main.cpp"],
+    deps = [
+        ":init_llvm",
+        "@abseil-cpp//absl/flags:parse",
+        "@google_benchmark//:benchmark",
+        "@llvm-project//llvm:Support",
+    ],
+)
+
 cc_library(
     name = "command_line",
     srcs = ["command_line.cpp"],
@@ -140,11 +151,12 @@ cc_binary(
     testonly = 1,
     srcs = ["hashing_benchmark.cpp"],
     deps = [
+        ":benchmark_main",
         ":check",
         ":hashing",
         "@abseil-cpp//absl/hash",
         "@abseil-cpp//absl/random",
-        "@google_benchmark//:benchmark_main",
+        "@google_benchmark//:benchmark",
         "@llvm-project//llvm:Support",
     ],
 )
diff --git a/common/benchmark_main.cpp b/common/benchmark_main.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0b62972ce3cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/benchmark_main.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+// Part of the Carbon Language project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM
+// Exceptions. See /LICENSE for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+
+#include <benchmark/benchmark.h>
+
+#include "absl/flags/parse.h"
+#include "common/init_llvm.h"
+#include "llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h"
+#include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
+
+auto main(int orig_argc, char** orig_argv) -> int {
+  // Do LLVM's initialization first, this will also transform UTF-16 to UTF-8.
+  Carbon::InitLLVM init_llvm(orig_argc, orig_argv);
+
+  // Inject a flag to override the defaults for benchmarks. This can still be
+  // disabled by user arguments.
+  llvm::SmallVector<char*> injected_argv_storage(orig_argv,
+                                                 orig_argv + orig_argc + 1);
+  char injected_flag[] = "--benchmark_counters_tabular";
+  injected_argv_storage.insert(injected_argv_storage.begin() + 1,
+                               injected_flag);
+  char** argv = injected_argv_storage.data();
+  int argc = injected_argv_storage.size() - 1;
+
+  benchmark::Initialize(&argc, argv);
+  absl::ParseCommandLine(argc, argv);
+  benchmark::RunSpecifiedBenchmarks();
+  benchmark::Shutdown();
+  return 0;
+}
diff --git a/toolchain/lex/BUILD b/toolchain/lex/BUILD
index 0e215168d8d6..73a728972742 100644
--- a/toolchain/lex/BUILD
+++ b/toolchain/lex/BUILD
@@ -85,9 +85,10 @@ cc_binary(
     srcs = ["numeric_literal_benchmark.cpp"],
     deps = [
         ":numeric_literal",
+        "//common:benchmark_main",
         "//common:check",
         "//toolchain/diagnostics:null_diagnostics",
-        "@google_benchmark//:benchmark_main",
+        "@google_benchmark//:benchmark",
     ],
 )
 
@@ -139,8 +140,9 @@ cc_binary(
     srcs = ["string_literal_benchmark.cpp"],
     deps = [
         ":string_literal",
+        "//common:benchmark_main",
         "//toolchain/diagnostics:null_diagnostics",
-        "@google_benchmark//:benchmark_main",
+        "@google_benchmark//:benchmark",
     ],
 )
 
@@ -271,12 +273,13 @@ cc_binary(
         ":lex",
         ":token_kind",
         ":tokenized_buffer",
+        "//common:benchmark_main",
         "//common:check",
         "//toolchain/base:value_store",
         "//toolchain/diagnostics:diagnostic_emitter",
         "//toolchain/diagnostics:null_diagnostics",
         "@abseil-cpp//absl/random",
-        "@google_benchmark//:benchmark_main",
+        "@google_benchmark//:benchmark",
         "@llvm-project//llvm:Support",
     ],
 )