diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index c4f06cf0..7d081116 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -4,6 +4,3 @@
 [submodule "breathe"]
 	path = breathe
 	url = git://github.com/cppformat/breathe.git
-[submodule "format-benchmark"]
-	path = format-benchmark
-	url = git://github.com/cppformat/format-benchmark.git
diff --git a/format-benchmark b/format-benchmark
deleted file mode 160000
index 057e5a9b..00000000
--- a/format-benchmark
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 057e5a9b853a3930cdf674c3ac1eacf670dd3b56