diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ea8c4bf..eb68687 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /target
+/tmp
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diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5c9e216..e00d467 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -48,12 +48,14 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aquatic",
  "bittorrent_udp",
+ "cli_helpers",
  "indicatif",
  "mimalloc",
  "num-format",
  "plotly",
  "rand",
  "rand_distr",
+ "serde",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/aquatic_bench/Cargo.toml b/aquatic_bench/Cargo.toml
index afc49c5..ddf376d 100644
--- a/aquatic_bench/Cargo.toml
+++ b/aquatic_bench/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,9 +17,11 @@ name = "plot_pareto"
 [dependencies]
 aquatic = { path = "../aquatic" }
 bittorrent_udp = { path = "../bittorrent_udp" }
+cli_helpers = { path = "../cli_helpers" }
 indicatif = "0.14"
 mimalloc = { version = "0.1", default-features = false }
 num-format = "0.4"
 plotly = "0.4"
 rand = { version = "0.7", features = ["small_rng"] }
-rand_distr = "0.2"
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+rand_distr = "0.2"
+serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
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diff --git a/aquatic_bench/src/bin/bench_handlers/config.rs b/aquatic_bench/src/bin/bench_handlers/config.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..256a275
--- /dev/null
+++ b/aquatic_bench/src/bin/bench_handlers/config.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+use serde::{Serialize, Deserialize};
+
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct BenchConfig {
+    pub num_rounds: u64,
+}
+
+
+impl Default for BenchConfig {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            num_rounds: 20,
+        }
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/aquatic_bench/src/bin/bench_handlers/main.rs b/aquatic_bench/src/bin/bench_handlers/main.rs
index 684229e..b67d108 100644
--- a/aquatic_bench/src/bin/bench_handlers/main.rs
+++ b/aquatic_bench/src/bin/bench_handlers/main.rs
@@ -20,14 +20,17 @@ use rand::{Rng, thread_rng, rngs::SmallRng, SeedableRng};
 use aquatic::common::*;
 use aquatic::config::Config;
 use bittorrent_udp::converters::*;
+use cli_helpers::run_app_with_cli_and_config;
 
 
 mod announce;
 mod common;
+mod config;
 mod connect;
 mod scrape;
 
 use common::*;
+use config::BenchConfig;
 
 
 #[global_allocator]
@@ -53,7 +56,15 @@ fn print_results(
 
 
 fn main(){
-    let num_rounds = 20;
+    run_app_with_cli_and_config::<BenchConfig>(
+        "aquatic benchmarker",
+        run
+    )
+}
+
+
+fn run(bench_config: BenchConfig){
+    let num_rounds = bench_config.num_rounds;
 
     let mut connect_data = (0.0, 0.0);
     let mut announce_data = (0.0, 0.0);
diff --git a/scripts/bench-handlers.sh b/scripts/bench-handlers.sh
index 6e2d975..904d1d5 100755
--- a/scripts/bench-handlers.sh
+++ b/scripts/bench-handlers.sh
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 export RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native"
 
-cargo run --release --bin bench_handlers
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+cargo run --release --bin bench_handlers -- $@
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